While he was eating his bread and
cheese at the public bar of the principal inn, he picked up one of the
local newspapers and reading it, as one so often reads in such
surroundings, with much greater particularity than the journal of a
metropolis, he came upon the following letter:
To the Editor of the WIELD OBSERVER AND SOUTH WORCESTERSHIRE
COURANT,
SIR,--The leader in your issue of last Tuesday upon my sermon in
St. Andrew's Church on the preceding Sunday calls for some
corrections. The action of the Bishop of Kidderminster in
inhibiting Father Rowley from accepting an invitation to preach in
my church is due either to his ignorance of the facts of the case,
to his stupidity in appreciating them, or, I must regretfully add,
to his natural bias towards persecution. These are strong words for
a parish priest to use about his diocesan; but the Bishop of
Kidderminster's consistent support of latitudinarianism and his
consistent hostility towards any of his clergy who practise the
forms of worship which they feel they are bound to practise by the
rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer call for strong words. The
Bishop in correspondence with me declined to give any reason for
his inhibition of Father Rowley beyond a general disapproval of his
teaching.
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