The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-09-17

that is Il secret which none but the mi
tiated can answer. Under the provi-
slons of the requests by which the
church was founded, and the charity
fun'iS established, the money must be
spent in the manner prescribed, although
the local need of both church and char
ity has long ceased to exist. Some of
the church livingS are comparatively
small, but, small as they are, they are
entirely too large for the amount of Ia.
Dor to be performed.
THE FAMOUS row CHURCH.,
in Cheapside, the bells of which have u
traditional charm for the ears of Lon
doncrs. contained scarcely fifty people
on Il recent Sunday morning, and on the
same occasion, atthe hardly less famous
st. Se%puichcrs, which is n of the
the congregation. Including the charity
school children, barely amounted to Il
hundred. This church stands on what
was at one time the bank of the Fleet
River; but the river has long ago been
transformed into Il sewer, and flows
deep underground through Il vaulted
passage wide enough for boats to as
cend without much difficulty. The
moldering remains of countless genera
tons of LOndOners has caused the
churchyard to be raised several feet
above the level of the roadway, and the
gay flowers which now adorn the space,
literally draw their nouriShment from Il
nations dust. Intermcnts are no longer
permitted within the limits of Il pre-
scribed radius, but it is only little over
twenty years ago since the practice of
burying in the London churchyards was
abolished. Conservatism is Z good bal
last to steady society, but an excess is
terribly oppressive. and to preserve the
rusty and WORKOUT machinery of the
past, merely because j, is old. is Il phil
Csophy which experience might have
taught ven Englishmcn I o correct.
While the richly endowed churches in
'-'I i-pil'lpiI cl''Il lIitII Vp'iiN With dlttI
week to congregations that no longer
exist, the tecming population of the
suburbs az" not0riou>lv ~ill-proyidcd
with church room, and the scanty emol-
umentS OF the Clergy barely suffice to
maintain u respectable existence.
Passing rich on forty pounds a year"
is Il line which, if not literally true, may
still be applied to many of the suhur-
ban clergy. Donation parties" are ut
tcrly unknown methods of raising Il
winter supply of cordwood and pota-
toes, and Il SiN-months' holiday, with Il
check for his expenses to America and
back, would appear to his parishi0ners
like the disturbed visions of 4 fever
dream. Not even Il brief >ummer va
cation falls to his share, but he must
content himself with hard work and
p]rotracted i~nlpccuniosity on 5000 Il
year, while his more favored brother
III the "city'
With drowSy sermon luilS the scanty fold,
and is paid i handsome salary for adj
miniStering to half a dozen old women
4 weekly dose Of spiritual and sporitic
consolation. The city of London pro-
per has altogether about f35,000 a year
left for church purposes, f17,000 a year
for ~parochial charity schools. and ISL
coo a year for gifts t o the poor, and
compared with the actual needs of the
small resident population nearly all this
money is wasted. To some extent the
educational fund is rightly applied, but
as in one ease. where the church Twin"
is worth f., 900 a year and the popula-
ton of the parish only numbers $50
souls, many glarin@ anomalies exist in
the management and application Of the
church funds, which were certainly
never contemplated by the original do
nOrS.