Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — The Church of England. [ARTICLE]

The Church of England.

The -wealth of the Church of England in worldly, not spiritual, goods is just now receiving considerable attention, but speculation has not much upon which to base itself, for the reason that no one knows precisely what its income is, except ' the two Archbishops, and they, probably wisely, keep the. knowledge securely t® themselves. Some of the most valuable property in England belongs to the chuYch, which has held it ever since it was taken away from the Roman Catholics by Henry VEH. and bestowed upon the newly created lEishops to make their fealty sure. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the primate of ail England, has an annual income; of $75,000, in addition to Lambeth Palace, his London or city residence. The Archbishop ■of York, the primate of England, receives $50,000 a year, besides two residences and a large household of -officials. The tithes of some of the other Bishops are: London, $50,000; Durham, $35,000; Winchester, $35,000; Ely, $27,500; and Bath, Lincoln, Oxford, Salisbury, and Worcester, $25,000 each. The Bishop of Sodon and Man, who has neither cathedral nor dean, gets $lO,000 a year for doing nothing.—American Register. According to Ruskin, an educated man ought to know these things: First, where hajs —that is to say, what sort ©fa world he has got into; how large it

is; what kind of creatures live in it, and how; what it is made of, and what may be made of it. Secondly, where he is going—that is to say, what chances or reports there are of any other world besides this; what seems to be the nature of that other world. Thirdly, what he had best do under the circumstances—that is to say, what kinds of faculties he possesses; what are the present state and wants of mankind;, what is his place in society; and what are the readiest means in his power of attaining happiness and diffusing it. The man who knows these things, and who has his will so subdued in the learning of them that he is ready to do what he knows he ought, is an educated man; and the man who knows them not is uneducated, though he could talk all the tongues of Babel.