'A controversy has been aroused a type one had hardly expected ever to seo in England again. Brief it {is that the Church should try to induce the clergy to remain unmarried, to which end a long memorandum has been sent to the two! archbishops signed by Mr. Athelstan Riley, Lord Hugh Cecil and other wellsinown lay leaders of the ex: treme High Church party.
Partly the reason given is that as private incomes among clergy grow seater, country livings become more diMeuli to All: the days when the squire's younger son automatically went Into a family living are gone: now he goes into trade. Furthermore it fs argued the social class of the clergy is changing rapidly: the Church is no more a prerogative of the gentry but is more snd more re-erupted from national school boys, also without money. And it is sug-Gested thay parishes should be amalgamated, three or four under one: clergy house' containing a number of celibate clergy to serve them all.
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