A CHURCH PICTURE
s ‘"I think .there are (fourteen pajrsishes in the City of London in which the population is under 200. There ( are only four in which it is over 1000. It is my duty to attend many of these churches on week-days and on Sundays. One I could never get into at all, it was always locked up, Sundays and week-days. But on one occasion I went to St. Vedast a beautiful church which nobody proposes to touch, served by an olid Oxford acquaintance of mine. This was the congregation at morning prayer; my friend,, hils curate, four men in surplices, paid of course, six or eight Choir boys in surplices, paid of course, a pew opener or verger, paid of course, toy wife, who went with me and one other woman. That was the congregation in a beautiful church Served by an excellent and attractive man. There are churcheis now in which the Elishop is obliged to say to the clergyman: ‘I dispense you of your duty of reading Sunday service because I know it is a mockery there will be nobody there.’ ” —Lord Philimore, in the House of Lords.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1927, 28 October 1926, Page 2
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193A CHURCH PICTURE Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1927, 28 October 1926, Page 2
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