SINN FEIN AND SILENT WORSHIP.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your notice of Silent Worship: the Way of Wonder you mention that the author, Miss L. Violet Hodgkin, "thinks that it may open a way to religious union," and quote her as saying:—
" The fact may'r t be generally known thit in the spring of 1918, when the bitterness of feeling among different sections of Irishmen had reached a degree unparalleled for centuries. Nationalists, Orangemen, and Sinn Feiners were all able to meet together in the cathedral of St. Patrick at Dublin for an hour of silent worship. In silence the underlying unity prevailed, although any spoken words might have shattered the assembly into irreconcilable fragments."
This was the last thing I read in my Spectator. Then almost the first thing I read next was this front a delightful but " unofficial" "history of the war " entitled Quoth the Raven, by "E.V. L." and " G. M.," just published by Messrs. Methuen :
"National day of intercession in all belligerent countries, each calling for particular blessing of Heaven on its arms." The date is not given, but it seems to have been about the time of the Irish prayer-meeting referred to.—I am, Sir, &c.,
CYNICUS.
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