[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') am afraid that your
plan is chimerical. I do not sup- pose that any Ritualist would consider for a moment the wishes of a minority. It is a peculiarity of their mental condition that they look upon every new ceremony, attitude, or vestment as an article of faith. But, to be quite candid, this minority would be troublesome anywhere. What could an Evangelical say to a band of young enthusiasts who clamoured for altar-lights and the mixed chalice ? It is all very well to tell that minority that they must set up a chapel and a minister of their own. Here am I, who have been dragged, indignant and helpless, through change alter change for the last six years. Can I, with the half-dozen, it may be, who think with me, spend five hundred pounds each to build a chapel, and find fifty pounds a year after- wards to support the minister ? In town there is commonly a remedy ; the disaffected find a more congenial abode. But is this well Is not this Congregationalism ? And more than this, there are at least three-fourths of the parishes of England where no such resource is possible. What is to be done, when a spiritual despot works his will, regardless of rubrics, canons, bishops, and laws, in the only accessible place of worship ?-
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