24 JUNE 1966, page 16

Reforming Parliament

SIR, —In Mr Alan Watkins's realistic article (June 10) on parliamentary reform, of which I approve. I notice he predicts that a Second Reading Com- mittee for non-contentious......

Sir,—i Can't Agree That 'the Great American Revivalists...

nineteenth century . . . converted men from an outcast condition to one of social responsibility.' Since Pentecost, Christian conversion has been based on the premise that man......

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From : Professor H. C. McLaren, Mary Blunt, Norman St. John-Stevas, MP, Margaret W ilkin- son, Andrew Belsey, David Laze!!, Geoffrey H. M. Block, Anthony Hera. A lasdair Fox. A.......

Revival In A Secular Society

SIR,—Dr Bryan Wilson's article on Billy Graham must have disappointed your many Christian readers. It was the familiar analysis—dispassionate, de- pressing and defeatist—of......

Sir,—i Read With Some Interest The Curious Letter Of The

Press Officer of the Abortion Law Reform Association (Mrs Anna Chataway) in which having declared the right of every woman to be able to apply to terminate a pregnancy with......

Sir,—dr Bryan Wilson Believes Britain To Be A Secular...

But this is true only if 'secular' is defined in a needlessly narrow way. God may not be as popular as he was, but what are the cults of scientism, Marxism, existentialism,......

Snt,—in The Many Articles In The Press And The Ensuing

correspondence on the fashionable subject of the Abortion Law Reform Bill, two points seem to have been largely ignored. Might not the law as it stands be a protection to many......

The Independent Schools' Future

SIR,— Recent correspondence on the issue of the independent schools, admirably raised and-discussed by Angus Maude, overlooks certain important con- siderations. (1) Opponents......

Yaroo!

SIR, oh sir, please sir,—Not Mr Squelch. Quelch is the name. Ask Bunter; even that fat ass could spell the name of his form-master. Alan Watkins clearly never went to......