Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-07-21
ss sEE Vol. 20, NO. Z.


significance. Thieves and robbers
Look at the following facts and say
was He not right The London
Morning Post, says g We learn with
dismay, that hundreds, literally
hundreds are with their families,
struggling in rags and penury, and
many are actually dying of cold and
hunger. This is no exaggeration.
1t is the simple melancholy truth,
and the 6 Poor Clergy Relief Soci-
ety." which holds its Office at No.
345 Strand, is the reluctant witness
to the fact" Its report says zone
poor incumbent receives % shillings
| C dollars) a week, has 10 walk ten
miles a week to fetch it. He has a
wife and FIVE children, and on the
Monday when he writes, they have
food left for only that day and lis
pittance IS not due until Friday.
Another Incumbent" asks for
his wife and family. They have not
been able to go to church for want
of clothes and shoes. Another
writes, that he is clergyman of
twenty five years standing, and du-
ring that time, his income was A
pounds Goo dollars) year. He has
large family. They are without
fuel, and half clothed. and for some
weeks, their only sustenance has
been two meals day, of tea without
sugar and dry bread. His clothes
are in rage, his shoes worn out, and
he cannot have either mended. He
and his ia mily are ON the brink of
starvation and ruin. One clergy
man whose child died for want of
food, was subjected to such con-
tempt, because a friend appealed on
his behalf, that he was obliged to
depart and seek euracy clse>
where |! Such are few of the
tales of misery connected with this
"historic church, And yet there is
in England in connection with this
church, an organization, called the
Ecclesiastical Commission, institu-
ted by the State, and for the very
purpose of providing adequate sup
port for the impoverished and hard>
est worked clergy of the established |
church. This Commission in 1860, |
spent 100000 in salaries, in work
ing the commission alone 1t begau |
its work by raising certain bishop |
RIGS to the value of f5, 900 a year.
1t spent ELS, 900 in identifying a di-
lapidated cathedral, and besides rails
ing the salaries of bishops, canons
and deans up to 81 900 and Els, 900
per year, this same Ecclesiastical
Commission spent G143,014 in re-
pairing and identifying the palaces of
eight bishops. At the same time
there were in these dioceses, 1442 liv-
ings under G200 year, SOP Of which
were under G100 Did Christ ever
institute such church as this same
''Episcopalian Communion ?" Did
He send His servants to wrest by
law or force from unwilling hands,
tithes, offering, Easter dues and
church rates, lavish the ill-gotten gold
upon pampered prelates and palaces
and cathedrals, and grind the face of
His poor into the dust +? Yes, the
Lord wasright, "THeiucs and Robbers"
One other, out of large numbers of
such facts, and | conclude. ITO be
sold, the next presentation to vicar.
age, in one of the Midland counties,
and in the immediate neighborhood
Of one or two of the finest packs
Of tox>hounds in the Kingdom. The
present annual income is about ESQ,
subject to Curatc's salary. The in.
cumbent is in his sixtieth year.
Fancy the apostle Paul having his
eye upon an old man sixty years old,
looking earnestly to the time when
the old man should die, that be might
step into the enjoyment of his ESQ
a year, which he had bought at COM
mercial value, years before, and
sporting out with his neighbors, one
or two packs Of fox hounds There
will doubtless, be amongst the Great
Multitude before the throne, very
many precious saintsfrom the "Anglo-
Communion" But even as there is,
properly speaking, no Church of
England on earth, neither will there
be one in heaven. There it will be
"the whole family in heaven"
ANGLICUs.