PARLIAMENT AND CONVOCATION.
[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPIACTATOR."]
SIR,—May I point out one rather important omission in your most excellent article on the proposals of the Church Reform League, an article for which all Church reformers must be grateful to you ? Our proposal is to give the initiative in regard to Church legislation not to Convocation alone, but to Convocation plus really representative Houses of Laymen, a
most important qualification, and one which, we hope, will not be without its effect in removing the fallacy that the Church consists only of the clergy. The proposal is that after any measure has passed both Houses of Convoca- tion and the Houses of Laymen also, then it shall be before Parliament for forty days ; and if no adverse Resolution be carried it shall then ipso facto become law by receiving the Royal assent.—I am, Sir, &c., HERBERT J. TORR,
Hon. Treasurer Church Reform League.
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