22 DECEMBER 1961, Page 9

SIR,--I have read the article by Bamber Gascoigne on Moral

Re-Armament and the letters in your recent issue, and I would comment in the words of the Rev. John Wesley writing to the Dublin Chronicle in June, 1798, in reply to an article in that paper misunder- standing his work.

'But what does this smooth candid writer endeavour to prove with all the softness and good humour imaginable? Only this point (to explain in plain English) that I am a double-tongued knave, an old crafty hypocrite who has used religion merely for a cloak and have worn a mask these fifty years saying one thing and meaning another.

'A bold charge this, only it happens that matter of fact contradicts it from beginning to end'