Church and Chapel
Sta,—Mr. W. R. Cummings takes me to task for calling the Methodists' secession "still a recent calamity " and for declaring that " those who try to bring them back are doing Wesley's work." He gave my words more depth of meaning than they were meant to have. If I had written that Wesley's work was done by " those who try to reconcile Anglicans and Methodists," he might not have objected.
Last Sunday I took a belated Remembrance Day service in a country Methodist church. The devotion, humility and attentiveness of the worshippers were most impressive. I came away more than ever convinced that a reader should be willing to preach in chapel as well as church and thus give a new dimension to his lay ministry. The field, if closed to others, is open to him. Mr. Cummings is right to call Methodism "a world Church." So is Anglicanism. The bridge offered by lay readers may be small. But it is not insignificant, and it Powdermill House, Battle, Sussex.
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