31 JANUARY 1914, Page 32

KIKUYU. .

[To 2117 Sousa or TEM "Einem:ma:1

SIR,—Thank you for your article on " What Kikuyu Stands For " (Spectator, December 20th, 1913), which, on rending, leads me to recall the position which that splendid missionary, the late Bishop French of Lahore, held in the matter of administering Holy Communion to non-Episcopalians. No one could, I venture to think, impeach his Churchman- ship, or say that he did not fully appreciate the historic claims of the Episcopate, yet he could never bring himself to refuse Communion with non-Episcopalians. The following extract from his correspondence is worthy of consideration at the present juncture:—

"These dear, good, American Missionaries (Presbyterian) and Professors will sit much nearer to the Iamb at His Supper table, I believe, than I shall, and I should blush, if admitted there, to think that I had warned them off the Eucharistic table on earth!'