[To THE EDITOE OP THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sra,-13y an interesting coincidence I read the letter of
• " M. A. Oxon," immediately after laying aside a book in which an Anglican divine, who holds offices of great impor- tance in the Church, treats of the Christianity of the second century. I had found in it this passage: "The evidence for the Communion of children (even infants) is almost, if not altogether, as wide and weighty as the evidence of their baptism. This is really the only logical and reasonable posi- tion." (The italics are mine.) One clergyman pleads the rubrics as his authority for refusing Communion to an applicant in whose piety he has good reason to believe; another pours contempt on them as being illogical and unreasonable, for if there is any meaning in words they demand from the com- municant a certain amount of knowledge. He believes that the Eucharist ought to be administered to infants, and that they suffer loss from the refusal. What will he do, what ought he to do, if he cannot find a Bishop to confirm them P—I am,
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