Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1882 — The Duties of an Archdeacon. [ARTICLE]

The Duties of an Archdeacon.

Lord Althrop, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, having to propose to the House of Commons a vote of £4OO a year for the salary of the Archdeacon of Bengal, was puzzled by a question from Mr. Hume: “What are the duties of an Archdeacon?” So he sent one of the subordinate ocoupants of the Treasury Bench to the other House to obtain an answer to the question from one of the Bishops. The messenger first met with Archbishop Vernon Harcourt, who described an Arohdeacon as aid-de-oamp to the Bishop” and then with Bishop Coplestone of Llandaff who said: “The Archdeacon is oculus episcopi." Lord Altlirop, however, declared that neither of these explanations would satisfy the House. “Go,” said he, “and ask ike Bishop of London (Blomfield); he is a straightforward man, and will give you a plain answer.” To the Bishop of London accordingly the messenger went, and repeated the question: “What is an Archdeacon?” “An Archdeacon?” replied the Bishop in his quiet way. “An Archdeacon is an ecclesiastical officer who performs Archidiaconal functions;” and with this reply Lord Althrop and the House were perfectlv satisfied. —London Society. Mb. O. B. Young, of Portsmouth, Ohio, writes: “I suffer- d severely from piles and indigestion. My urine was olouriy, full of sediment and voided with pain. My general health was very poor; tne least exertion gave me great fatiy ue, for I was very weak. I was reoomm mded to try Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla by a Cincinnati friend who had been cured by it of liver complaint and weak kidney a Three bott.es made a well man of me.”