PRAYER-BOOK REVISION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Obviously the
laity are genuinely averse from any alternate use. It would only lead to ecclesiastical strife. Surely the three schools of thought in our Ecclesia Anglicana might agree, without any compromise of principle, on the Scottish Communion Office. At the present juncture, what is needed is half as much Caritas as Ardor. One does not doubt the-sincerity of the extremists, provincial as their outlook is : they are just lacking in true Catholicism. " I think," as William Law once, humorously, remarked of the People called Methodists, " that they have the Spirit of God, but they have greatly mingled their own spirit with Him." Barring a removal of a few archaisms and an enrichment of additional collects would it not be wiser, at the present time, to defer " tampering" with our all but inspired Book of Common Prayer until revision can be discussed by men converted to singleness of heart by the Holy Spirit ? The Church can get anything she needs provided she acts concertedly together.—I am, Sir, &c., Gigglesrvick-in-Craven. THEODORE P. BROCKLEIIURST.
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