[To the 'Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—(l) Thanks to Dr.
Major for le mot juste" pro- fessional immoralist."
(2) His citation of Dr. Bosanquet is damaging to his own cause and not at all to the cause of his opponents. The quotation is so true to type, so transparent, that it' can deceive no one who is not a practising modernist. •
(3) Dr. Major's " English people who feel theniselves excluded from our Church Services " by dogmatic difficulties have scarcely survived to our times. They belonged to the days and ways of thinking of honest Unitarian moralists like James Martineau. Their lineal descendants make no scruple of coming right into the Church. The professional immoraliSt has long ago fixed that up for them. From inside they would underinine the Church's fouhdations--jthe' sacred deposit of dogmatic truth which is the raison d'ilre of her very existence.
(4) We poor " fundamentalists " would not be 'unfair to
modernists. We readily admit that in all the ordin'ary affairs of life they may be at least as honest as ourselves and quite possibly a bit more human and kindly. In these important respects we are glad to learn from them where we can. But in the immeasurably more important, amid prior, matters of Christian faith and ',confessions to faith, they simply cannot play fair. What more is there to be said ?
Mayland Vicarage, Chelmsford. FREDERICK SHIPPAM.
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