THE BISHOP OP ST. ASAPH ON WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT STATISTICS.
[To 'fp, EDITOR or Hp. I'SDHOTI4911.".1
Sim —Your correspondent Mr. Morgan states in last week's ipsue that in the statistics of the Calvinistic Methodists " the ' hearers' are the non-communicants." The Official Record of the Calvinistic Methodists (Cylchlythyran, 1889; Attodiad,
p. 47) publielies the official statistical form to be filled in by the various chapels. Jn this form " hearers " are thus defined :—" Hearers include communicants (Aclodau Eglwysig) and every one besides who is accustomed to be a hearer witli the Connexion, although all are not present at the same time ; and they include the whole of the children." I ventured to alter the current formula that "the hearers are at least two and a half times the number of the members" by quoting the exact figures, and substituting "not quite" for " at least." Your correspondent interprets my gentle meiosis as a mistake.
I ought to have ended my sentence with a note of admiration, but my typing-machine is old-fashioned, arid does not supply
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