27 MAY 1911, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " STECTITOR."1 SIR,—It is difficult

to read Mr. Riley's letter with any semblance of patience and self-control. His aim is to reduce, as far as in him lies, the National Church to the strict limits of a sect, and to exclude from it the great body of the laity, who are becoming more and more keenly sensible of the claims of Christianity, by requiring their adhesion to cer- tain formulas, tending to stereotype a faith which is over- growing and expanding by virtue of its innate power. The brotherhood of mankind is becoming more and more plainly the ideal of the twentieth century.—I am, Sir, &c.,