[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, May I correct
a reference made by your correspondent, Mr. Alfred Fellows, to my speech in Convocation ?
I did not say that " no parson had troubled " me " with an application as to Communion for a divorced person." I have applications of this kind not infrequently from clergy. In my brief speech I said I had never had such an application made direct to me by a divorced person. The point I was endeavouring to make was that for those of us who believe that reception of the Holy Communion is " generally necessary to salvation," since in my experience divorced people always assume that they are excommunicate, it is the duty of the clergy not to boycott such people but rather to seek them out and endeavour to bring them to such a frame of mind that it may be possible to re-admit them to the Sacrament.
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