Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1912 — ENGLISH CLERGY POOR PAID [ARTICLE]

ENGLISH CLERGY POOR PAID

Only Nineteen Ministers of Gloucester Are Paid Over $2,000 a Year— Endowment System Faulty. London. —“Only 19 of the clergy in the diocese of Gloucester receive $2,000 a year, or, in other words, only 19 are as valuable as an ordinary member of parliament,” said J. D. Birchall at a conference of the Church of England Men’s society at Leeds recently. The conference was discussing the remuneration of clergymen. Another speaker said it was wrong that one man should receive $15,000 a year lor three months’ duty and' a house to live in while others were receiving such poor stipends. The archbishop of Yord said that the endpwifent system of the Church of England was full of old abuses. Nothing but Parliament and a long process of lobbying and agitation can procure the desired reforms, be said.