24 MAY 1884, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR "1

SIR,—May I, as a clergyman, thank you for your article on "Indiscipline in the Church of England " ? It is a nail which wants" a great deal of hammering, and I do hope you will expend a little muscle over it when you have spare time.

Whether Disestablishment itself he good or bad, its imme- diate cause will be very bad, viz., this want of discipline and the general powerlessness to improve such matters as living- mongering and the unfair division of incomes. Why must we be paralysed P—I am, Sir, &c., G. D. M.