28 APRIL 1906, Page 32

[TO ME EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—It is impossible not

to admire the counsels of modera- tion and good sense you have 'given during this miserable controversy. The real danger, the Scylla for the Church, is secularism. The whole question of undenominational teaching has been summed up by the great Quaker Penn in words which I quote in case they have not already appeared in your columns :—" It were better to be of no Church than to be bitter for any."—I am, Sir, &c., JOHN O'HEGAN. Dublin.