THE CLERGY'S WAGE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 151, 20 March 1908, Page 4

THE CLERGY'S WAGE.

Tho Anglican clergyman in Great Bri- , ta,in. a : y§ai'" will .soon ..tjj. • .v-y. 'rhe'Eccle'siastical Commissioners havo been ' . informed by ' their.'; linancial- ladyiser'J.that the . ■ ; prospnt-pojrtion of.thear common fund is.so r ; ';Batisfac'{oTy tiat they will be able to ihcreaao , tho annual- sum-devoted-to -tho-augmentstion- '■ I ol ben.efiwa andjJn acldi-. V tion, •'' •fr«li v -r'^finual'-^ , gfftny' i 6f ' •••■ jjear for.mora pressing cases. . Tho eidor tho, -'matter, recommend . -that this . £50,000' bo ally; all patronage,;ijith a .' population.-of.AOdfiJand. upwards,-.whichirfiavo: -Loenlin' to 1 ■;. January 1' ; ..'All 3imilar4be : betwoeri 500 of union with iajb&lng'- '* :^lt®ce^ Pluralities a year. ■ . ' •'« is further; / state, that out v 7 <rf. the .'.to raising be- ; yond tho'.standSr]d^fe-£ls^iifet;^ . " .-This great'-: "ifibvo"'yiii"'' 'tlio"-"'direction of .. Church reform,' following, as-it does upon , tho 7 recent announcement that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners aro i 't'o'i , gut'''aiide s £250,000 a year for pensions,, r for : .poor aged ;,,and, infirm; incumbents, will, send a wkvo.of satisfaction ranjts t of.^,-tfie.ol^i'gyj' V.s I , .On^esulfc^,which; .is liilmost ycsttaiir t'6v. . accrue.is,an 'of'&hi" . ; ■ dadates for ordination/;;; 1 0Bo:'pf: youiig meli" in • offering;.themselves.for.holy, has been 7 tKat. &1J: tbfejr. , lives/Jiipt,-daring'to- -exchange' ,'tho. certain • for the .smaller, and', less., regular 1 in- , . come attached to many livings, despite their . greater :/ - , ,It .;i«. r ,'estimatcd 7that among tho 14,000 I bEnencps in" Englaiiil "'"and IValca 6195 are .7 . worth Iras than. £200, ( a year, and 1491 of these loss than £100 a'year.' '• . • »'/jtunbor. ;6f4livings'" mentioned-' in Crock-ford'.", Clerical? -Dirc-ctory'7vh'iolv havo' ; u : ' 7^ r ,V ,'.',. ._; JjjHrigs. mentionedTviho^o'l incomes' arc .very httlobatter than r hothmc -. are:— - 7 ' Farthingstone, Northamptonshire, £9; St . Mary,>N6rthga"to, aiid"- : Ali . • Saints ivCifnterbpry, ;'£lS, ';a.nd <£2''; 'Findon Sussex,; £20: St.'.,Mar,tin's/ Bedford; £247 \ ( \ 'K<me?>f^tW..!liwß^s' aro'uhder' p'rfrato , patronage; --i". v ., : ! ■, y ' '. • . Tlio.;^oirf6r;i^'bow<aiiy : .CT§xori- , -cßii'*&|J'. s % to . desiro to; vote. There' should .be some T penalty, for tho man who fails;'to) perform sucMi tficlT duty ' 'Hor aid,' ';<I3 offto n Tho; older '.hdld : . ; their owii ... witl»- ;.'tho". yonng" ontw,i' > Tho hardest and straiklitcrt'ridora to" hounds, and most ; 7 particularly,..' tha qujekeet „ and,-: ,-,bqst,. game. , : shots,'-aro by 'no irntaiis always' the youngest men. To bs a reall.r good j gam.e';s.hbti indeed,' is to be,endowed ifi'th another sort of percn- -, nial roiiii.—"Field."- : • -