[To THE EDITOR OW THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Will you allow
a Canadian clergyman to express through your columns his profound gratitude to the Bishop of Hereford for his fundamentally Christian act in inviting to a Coronation celebration of the Holy Communion Non- conformists as well as Churchmen ? We all know what a large share our Nonconformist brethren have had in the building up and establishing of the Empire both at home and abroad, and there could be no more appropriate occasion than that of the Coronation of King George for such an act of holy fellowship between those who, with some differences, have yet, both in doctrine and morals, a far greater measure of agreement. And, further, I desire no less heartily to express my gratitude to you for the support which the Spectator, representing as it does so much that is best in the Church, has accorded the Bishop. May I add that to accuse Dr. Percival of "a contravention of sacred principles" seems a singularly inappropriate charge ; whilst you, Sir, more than once, and many others elsewhere, have given excellent reasons why it is equally inappropriate to describe the invitation to Nonconformists as "unconstitutional in the deepest sense of
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