Clergy Paid Less than Road-Sweepers The Bishop of Southwark, speaking at a meeting at the Mansion House, held in aid of the Soutiwark Diocesan and South London Church Fund, described the pitiable conditions of the South London assistant clergy, many of whom are paid lower. wages than road-sweepers. He declared the characteristic of the diocese to be appalling housing conditions, real poverty, and unemployment. The great mass of people there stood apart from organized Christian religion, and it was, therefore, apparent that the Diocese could not Large parishes, containing 6,000 souls, were run by a rector alone;" one parish containing 27,000 was run by two priests, and many of the clergy were literally working themselves to death.
Lord Robert Cecil, st.p., who is treasurer of the Fund, spoke of the hatred there was in the world at the present mouient. Of all vices, hatred, he held, to be most typically un-Christian. There was only one means of removing this reproach, and that was tha preaching of Christianity in and out of season. "The League of Nations is to me part of Christianity," concluded Lord Cecil. "It is Christian morality applied to international affairs, and if it be preached and accepted it will mean great revival of the Christian faith throughout the world."
The Lord Mayor, who presided, said that the Southwark Diocese contained 2,500,000 inhabitants, wag: the second largest diocese, and had the largest mass of unrelieved Poverty in the United Kingdom. It possessed 320 churches and 650 clergy and lay workers. Its annual income was £14,000, in comparison with the £30,000 required: annually to build new churches and give the clergy a living wage. Even then every incumbent would receive only £400 and the assistant' clergy £220, this latter wage, albeit the assistant priest was a man of University education, correspond: me to the average wage of the railway porter.
Orrawa, Dec, 21.—All luxury taxes in Canada excepting those on alcoholic beverages, confectionary and- playing cards, have bee A New York despatch to the Asahi" reports that on December 8 about 1,000 pieces of mail matter. mostly registered, were discovered in a wardrobe drawer in the Hotel Albert. They had been forwarded in a bag sent from Tokio to England,, the bag reaching London on November 4. The motive of the theft is thought to have been to obtain important diplomatic documents, and to have been the work of inter national epics.
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