To the Editor of the Nowra-Crma, Dany Naws, Sin,—May I be permitted to direct your attention to that part of your: Hankow respondent's letter, in your issue of 20th which refers to what. ho styles the "summer ecclesiastical tempest."
Your correspondent does not, 1 suppose, excite an. enormous amount of pirblio in: terest by his utterances; nevertheless when ho undertakes to state facts, "he.should, T think firmly control his manifest disposition to be funny and rollicking, rather than run-the risk of being misunderstood.
Personally, I think your correspondent's playful manner would be more acceptable: if ho discovered less glee in what he evidently regards as the discomfiture of the St. John's Church committee; and his letter more worth reading, as now, if he showed a closer acquaintance with the subject he has chosen for the display of his "humour."
It'is well known the present committee were elected because they held the opinion ought to conduct, the Established Ohureh that -only legitimate Church clergymen
service in St. John's Church;-and: that it was undesirable, if not illegal; that' any other than episcopal clergymen should officiate there.
On their election the committee gave effect to these views; and, thanks to' the polians here, the American, mission, the most generous assistance of the only episco-Church of England service was conducted every Stihday, for the benefit of sixty'or severity people, up to the' time" thatthe of cletgymat fiiciating in had to leave for Ja} throt ill-health: The' cotimittes then asked MI.' Consul to read suck portions 'Lititgy, as 4 Isyaran' could-read, tery kindly consented to"do-Church' was" then closed "for mye tions und cleaning; it'being tioh'to tay the chute way,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.