SHORTAGE OF CLERGY.
Ok BISHOP OF DURHAM'S PROPOSAL. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received May 9, 1 p.m.) LONDON, May 8. The Bishop of Durham at the Convocation of .York proposed that ordination to the diaconate be permissable at 21 instead of 23, so as to facilitate the ordination of poor candidates. He said, there was a serious decline in the quality oi candidates and the intellectual penury of many clergy was too terrible to contemplate. Whether it was due lo the new cult of eelebracy, birth control, or to poverty making people more averse to marriage, the old recruiting area for clergy was now barren of supplies and the shortage of candidates was threatening to bring an immense calamity on the English religion.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16426, 9 May 1924, Page 5
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124SHORTAGE OF CLERGY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16426, 9 May 1924, Page 5
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