WELSH NONCONFORMISTS AND 'Mk; GENERAL ELECTION.
[TO 111E EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"]
SIR,—Mr. John Owens's letter in your issue of February 12th requires a longer reply than the time at my disposal now enables me to give. Not once nor twice have Noncon- formists complained to me in the course of my ministry of the "political sermons" they have to listen to in their chapels Sunday after Sunday, and of the bitter and disparaging way in which the Established Church and its ministers are spoken of in pulpit and on platform. I could supply the names of two leading Nonconformist ministers in this town who at a Unionist meeting at the time of the last General Election were observed inciting a band of turbulent youths at the back of the hall to disturb and break up the meeting. Mr. Owens is much too modest in his depreciation of the part played by the Dissenting pulpit in politics.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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