" The revised Leetionary will, I think, meet with very general acceptance, if only for one very obvious advantage which is offered' by it, that on the second or third service of the the "minister may read as the first lesson one of two chapters, taken, with some .exceptions, from the Old Testament ,- arid if 'there be a third, service on Sunday, the second lesson of that service may be any chapter from the four Gospels, or any lesson appointee! in the Calendar from the four Gospels, except on those Sundays for which alternative second lessons are specially appointed, r This alono will secure for it a welcome in many of, our churches, and because of this extension of liberty in our Sunday services, and other im provements which seem to have been carefully and judiciously introduced, I should be glad that the use of the revised Leetionary should be authorised by our New Zealand Church. But I must admit that I am not fully satisfied that clause 21 of the Constitution was intended to apply to matters of this kind. The term " regulation," as used in that clause, seems in my opinion to point rather to rules and direc tions relating to good order and government in the diocesan churches, in such cases for which no provision has been made by the General Synod ; whereas an alteration in our church formularies (and the new Leetionary must be regarded as an important element in them) touches upon questions of a higher moment than good order and government, since it may have the effect of modifying the teaching of our Church in respect of thoso truths which are its very life-blood. " It is quite possible that this might hap pen by the substitution of other lessons for thoso now in use, though all be taken from the Holy Scriptures. Such lessons might bring too prominently forward certain truths, to the neglect of others of equal importance, and so the teaching of our Church, as conveyed through the lessons of her Calendar, might not be according to the analogy of faith ; and this no doubt i« the reason why the clergy, ministering in Our services are not at liberty to read even Scripture lessons of their own choosing. 