At a recent meeting of the church council, an abusive letter was discussed. The letter had been sent by an officer in a village organisation to the secretary of the church council. The officer had been responsible for organising a concert in church and had been negotiating with the church via the secretary, but the two men had failed to hit it off with each other from the start. Intemperate words had been exchanged, unfortunate actions had followed, and before long a full scale row had developed.
The letter received was full of personal abuse about the
