THE PRAYER BOOK CONTROVERSY
• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I still maintain, with all respect to Sir Thomas Inskip, that it is generally agreed that the Alternative Service is a step farther from and not nearer to Roman Catholic principles. The fact that Sir Thomas and " scores of others " do not concur is regrettable, but it is no bar to a general agreement ; it only prevents the general agreement of hundreds of thousands from being a unanimous agreement.
Mr. Howden, in his ingenuous apologia, convicts himself, I submit, not only of begging the question, but also of not knowing what that expression means ; and it is news to me that tolerance is necessarily easy-going. He' expresses a desire for decent controversy, but has not seen fit to withdraw his scandalous charge against the Archbishops and Bishops.
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