CM THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —" Presbyter's" method of
presenting facts is somewhat perplexing. What he calls "the late Convocation" was a Committee of one House of Convocation in one of the two Provinces ; and the recommendation of this Committee of the Lower House of Canterbury was not "that; the rubric ordering the use [of the Athanasian Creed] was to be struck out," but that the use was to be made optional by the altera- tion of "shall" in the rubric to "may." This recommenda- tion has not yet been accepted by the Lower House of Canterbury ; the Committee of the Lower House of York recommends that the rubric be unaltered, and the Committees of the two Upper Houses have not yet reported on this question.
May I add that nothing is better calculated to stimulate that opposition to all revision which "Presbyter," in common with many other lay and clerical Churchmen, deplores than the tendency to regard the proposals of a Committee of the Lower House of Canterbury as the voice of Convocation, and to concentrate attention on two or three controversial matters P
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