RECRUITMENT OF CLERGY
Sir, —Representatives of the Anglican Church have confessed that their methods of recruitment and training of clergy are poor, but they have neatly neglected to define what type of clergy they aim to train. Do we want a “learned ministry’’ or do we want clergymen who understand human nature and its problems? The Church to-day must realise that it does not merely require scholars but men who can appreciate the problems of the “man in the street.’’ The figures given in the report printed on Wednesday last in “The Press” do not give a •strictly accurate picture, without giving the number of recruits who have come forward and have been prevented from doing the work which God has called them to do. The time is opportune for the Archbishop to speak in the name of the Church and make these matters clear.—Yours, etc., EX THEOLOG. October 12, 1949.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25935, 15 October 1949, Page 2
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