THE SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sni,—Dr. Gordon Mitchell's generalizations regarding the Scottish Episcopal Church are both ignorant and insolent. Four and a half years of war do not appear to have taught him charity to his Christian brethren, and he still goes on repeating the stock legends regarding us which were not true even fifty years ago. He says that we are " the narrowest communion in Scotland" and that ours is "a class Church." I presume that by the latter he means a Church of one class. Has he ever taken the trouble to inform himself of the con- stituents of our congregations in Glasgow or Dundee or Aberdeen, or in fishing villages on the East Coast, or in High- land glens like Glencoe? Obviously he has not. The Scottish Episcopal Church is no more a " class Church " than his own. and it contains all the elements in the nation. Hence if " its sectional atmosphere is a proverb in the land," it can only be in such districts as Killearn where its true nature is the subject of legend. Dr. Gordon Mitchell does not seem to have had many opportunities for examining Scottish Episcopacy, and has not made good use of such as he has had. As to his un-Christian sneer at its being "a congenial nidus for snobs, tuft-hunters, &c.," I can only say that, so far as a fairly equal acquaintance with both Presbyterianism and Episcopacy is concerned, neither form of faith is more congenial to such beings than the other. It is a statement which he should be ashamed to have made, and it suggests that the recent move- ment for National Rededication, in which all Churches in Scotland joined, has left lira unmoved.—I am, Sir, Ac.,
J. A. MseCutroar, D.D., Canon of Cumbrae Cathedral. The Rectory, Bridge of Allan.
[We cannot continue this correspondence.—Eo. Spectator.]
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