22 JANUARY 1887, Page 15

EARLY ENGLISH CHRISTIANITY.

ITO THR EDITOR OF TIER "SPECTATOR."] &11,—." It is quite certain that all the Christianity which Augustine found in England was Latin." (Spectator, p. 84, January 15th.) Whence, then, arose the discussion at the Council of Whitby (A.D. 664) concerning the time of -observing Easter? It would seem that the Eastern reckoning was firmly rooted in Britain through the Gallican Church, and that Augustine found this and other forms of Christianity, derived from Galilean sources.—I am, Sir, So., Teignton Vicarage, Jan. 17th. PERCIVAL JACKSON.

[Bat was not the Gallican Church essentially Latin, though with some mixture of Asiatic ideas P—En. Spectator.]