GACE'S CATE CHI SM.
[To THE EDITOR OF THZ " SpscrAToR."] Sin,—The Rev. J. G. Cheshire affirms that I "asserted that Gace's Catechism was used in thousands of schools." I did no such thing. I spoke of the number of copies of the Catechism, described by the Wesleyan Conference as a "special Catechism," which had been put into circulation, but not a word of its having been "used in thousands of schools." Dr. Waller, the President at the present time of the Wesleyan Conference, has given the history of what was said and done on the part of the Wesleyan Conference in 1891, in regard to this Catechism. It is evident that your correspondent has not seen the letters in the Times on this sub- ject from Dr. Waller and myself. I must refer him to those letters. It would also seem that Mr. Cheshire is ignorant of the expose, published in the Daily News and the Westminster Gazelte two days ago, or he would scarcely have directed attention again to the subject in your columns. Whether the author of the Catechism is known as "Father Gace," 1113 some have spoken of him, or as Dr. Gaee, a title which, till I saw it in your columns, I did not know had been given to him, his name and his Catechism had better not be mentioned by friends of the Church of England. The Wesleyan Conference did not mention his name, nor did I, until I was compelled to
do so and to give samples of the teaching of the Catechism (" No. 1") by the public challenges of Churchmen.—I am, Sir,
79 Brizton Hill, December 21st. JAMES H. RIGG.
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