WELSH TITHES.
[TO THE EDITOR. OP THE " SPECTATOR."'
Sin,—Surely the letter of the Bishop of St. Asaph, in the Spectator of October 19th, is a better proof than aught else that the Church of England in Wales has not done its duty in the past, and is not even doing it now. The Bishop appeals for help for his clergy, not to the members of his own Church in Wales, who, according to the contention of many of his friends, number nearly half the population, and certainly comprise by far the wealthiest portion of the community, but to English Churchmen.
It seems to me that the great lesson of Christianity—viz., self-sacrifice—has not been brought home to the lay members of the Welsh Church ; they have not been taught by the clergy that if their Church is a thing they are proud of and really value, they should be prepared to make great sacrifices for it, and this appeal to English Churchmen would be alto-
gether unnecessary.—I am, Sir, &c., C. H. J.
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