2 OCTOBER 1909, Page 29

THE DECAY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

pro THIS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

Sfs,—In a letter which appeared in your columns last week the writer speaks of "Roman features of the Prayer-book, left there in the interests of peace at the Reformation." I remember a former Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, once remarking to me, in illustration of this, that the com- pilers of the Book of Common Prayer seem to have purposely left a sort of inclined plane by which some might the more easily climb down to the Reformed faith, but that the Ritualistic party have taken advantage of it to climb back towards Rome.—I am, Sir, &c.,

G. J. COWLEY-BROWN.

9 Grosvenor Street, _Edinburgh.