Stx,—I am grateful to the Dean of Wells for his
letter on the Apostles' Creed, which clears up the possible misconstruction of a small part of my earlier letter. That letter was already long enough, and I was only concerned lest it should be thought that the Church of England alone stood by the Apostles' Creed.
Mr. Robinson raises a different point. I was careful to say that I should welcome one who sincerely made the affirmation suggested by Sir Henry Bashford because I regarded it as a foundation on which to build. A foundation without a superstructure serves little purpose, and the plan of the superstructure which I hope we might build together is seen on pages 17 to 24 (" The Eternal Gospel ") of the Report " Towards the Conversion of England." So far from regarding Mr. Robinson as an " outcast," I should rejoice to have him in my congregation, and I believe there are wide areas over which we could usefully co-operate ; but he himself would scarcely with to hold any authorised position, e.g., in the training of youth, within a communion which, so far as its lay members are concerned, defines its interpretation of the Apostles' Creed in the terms which I have already quoted from the Catechism.
I do not believe there is such a thing as non-credal Christianity, but I am anxious that we shall regard our congregation as schools of disciple- ship, in which those with an =formulated belief find their place as well as those who have grown up in the Christian Faith. The aim of such schools is defined in the opening paragraph of the Report to which I have already referred. It is " So to present Christ Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit, that men shall come to put their trust in God through Him, to accept Him as their Saviour, and serve Him as their King in the
fellowship of His Church."—Yours faithfully, NORMAN H. CLARKE. St. Andrew's Vicarage, Plymouth.
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