OVER-CHURCHED WALES
UNDERPAID CLERGY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 31. 'Hie Welsh Church Commission report that the population of Wales is 2,012,917, and that the church and chapel sealings accommodate 1,972,602. The Anglicans provide a church for every 1,080 of the population, and the Nonconformists a chapel for every 450. The Commission slate that Wales is overchnrched, and that the clergy are underpaid. One-third of the CongregationalLst ministers receive under £C3 a year. There are 195,000 Anglican communicants, being 23 per cent, of all the communicants. The report does not touch on the question of disestablishment and disendowment.
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Evening Star, Issue 14511, 1 November 1910, Page 6
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98OVER-CHURCHED WALES Evening Star, Issue 14511, 1 November 1910, Page 6
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