[To TVS Ferro. or rer .Sescraror..1 do not suppose for
a moment that you will publish
this letter, but none the less I venture to ask whether it seems
to you fair to hold the Bishop of Zanzibar up to ridicule and reprobation by printing from the Times what on the face of it is a misleading report of his words. I say "on the face of it" it is misleading, because the first sentence as you print it is abso- lutely without meaning. "The gushing embrace that the world called charity, the preacher considered 'the embrace that takes in all men and leaves out the word " incarnate."' " That is nonsense. What the preacher said was "the embrace that takes in all men and leaves out the Word Incarnate." It is surely not an " amazing " thing for a Christian Bishop to say that true charity will not be disloyal to our Lord. Whether the Bishop has rightly interpreted loyalty to Christ in his protest is a matter on which men will differ, just as they will differ on the question whether the priest in the diocese of Mombasa who refused to give the Communion to a woman if she made the sign of the Cross was right in holding his refusal an act of loyalty to Christ, as no doubt he did. But it is neither charity nor loyalty to publish or republish garbled accounts of what your opponents say.—I am, Sir, &c., R. G. M. [We leave our readers to judge whether our action was unfair. We had no suspicion of the report in the Times being incorrect.—En. Spectator.]
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