- HOW NOT TO TRAIN THE CLERGY. [To THE EDITOR
OP THE "SPECTATOR,"]
Stu,—In the latter part of your interesting article on "How not to Train the Clergy," Dr. Headlam has seriously misled you. You follow him in commenting severely on a supposed proposal of the bishops that every candidate for Orders should spend at least a year at a Theological College. You quote him as saying that "if it were put in the vague form in which I have sometimes seen it put= should have been at a theo- logical college or had other' special training should not myself be inclined to take exception to it." This " vague form" is, as a matter of fact, the actual form of the bishops' resolution. They require .that all candidates shall have had " at least one year's theological, praci-;eal, and devotional training at a recognized theological college or under some other authorized supervision." It is a pity that Dr. Headlam's excellent letter should have been marred by this blunder and the comments based upon it.—I am, Sir, &c., Cuddesdon College,.Whealley, Orson. J. 0: JOHNSTON.
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