THE DIOCESE OF LONDON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3130, 28 February 1879, Page 4

THE DIOCESE OF LONDON.

The Bishop of Lincoln has addressed a pastoral letter to the clergy and laity of his diocese, in which he insists on the importance of maintaining the Church schools throughout the diocese, and suggests a " School Sunday " for simultaneous collections. He points out that the condition of other countries where the foundations of Christianity have been wI aliened and where- secularism has almost supplanted the Gospel may serve : s a naming to Englishmen ; that this is a question which concerns them as citizens as well as Christians; that it affects the institutions of our country and our ruitional peace and prosperity and the relations of our domestic and social life as well as our higher intt rests. The Bishop prt poses there shall be a general offertory throughout the diocese for the building of Truro Cathedral. He says thatat present there are 35 theological students in the l>i>hop's Hostel, and that, thanks to the lfibcrs of the Bishop of Nottingham and the generosity of Earl Brownlow and others, upwards of £35,000 has been contributed in the last eight years for the ;i uk men tat ion of small livings in Lincolnshire, Of the 680 benefices, the income ot one ninth is under £100, of one-third pander £200, and one-half under £300. 'The liishop desired to see a similar society e>(ablished for Nottinghamshire, and some eflort iv t ehalf of foreign missions in every parish.