RITUALISTIC LOGIC.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.1
'Sra,—If the Ritualists, as a body, are prepared to endorse the -opinion expressed by "A. H. W.," that "the whole principle of the Mass and Auricular Confession is involved" in the provision that,to a certain order of men is given the exclusive right of -celebrating the Lord's Supper and pronouncing absolution, the sooner this is generally understood, the better. No compromise is possible between those who believe the Mass and Confession to be of divine necessity, and those who believe the one to be a blasphemous fable," and the other to be a "dangerous deceit." But I would fain hope that the Ritualists in general are not quite so ready as "A. H. W." to draw large conclusions from small premises. It would be as logical to affirm that the Act -of Settlement involves the whole principle of the divine right -of Kings, because it gives to the House of Hanover the sole 'right of succeeding to the Crown.—I am, Sir, So., G.
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