The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-02-06

London Spectator.
There are Very much fewer fairly
good livingssthan there used to be. The
fall in the value OF 1.-THE. the difficulty
OF finding tenarss for glebe farms, the
impossibility Of getting any decent re-
turn from such g.ebe as is in hand,
have reduced the income of a great
many benefices by something like half.
Livings varying from f400 to $500 a year
have become livings varying from 1850
to $500, and this decline may just make
the difference between comfort and
pinching. We say nothing of the many
livings which do not reach the lower of
these levels. because when a man is
weighing the advantages of orders as
a profession lie does not take much ac-
U of them. What may be called,
then, the smaller prizes of the church
are worth very much less than they
We're fifteen ears ago. The greater
prizes among livings have been equally
affected by this change, and they have
also sustained a loss of another kind.
Often, especially in h north, they COW
cred q great deal of ground, and as the
population has grown, one daughter
parish after another has been carved
out of the original area and has carried
away a portion of the original income.
But it Is not only the parochial clergy
who have suffered. Dignitaries have
had to bear their share as well. Where
deans and chapters have retained their
lands in preference I exchanging them
for a fixed sum paid them by the eccle-
siastical commissioners. they have
equally had to put up with large re-
auctions of income. There are no
longer any golden stalls and even
the inferior metal that has been sub
stituted has been further alloyed OF
late years. Still, all this has not as yet
prevented radical speakers and writers
from charging upon the rich prizes OF
the church, and setting 1t on a level in
this respect with another great profess
sion. the law. The archbishop of Cam
terbufy pairs off with the lord chancel-
Tor the archbishop OF York with the
master Of the rolls, The bishops with the
judges, the deans With county court
judges. There is, no doubt, a rough
sort of parallel between these various
OFFICES, but the comparison leaves out
OF sight II very important element.
In n church there is nothing answer
ing to the great sums made in practice
at the bar. 1t is not the judgeships and
n few other highly paid offices that
constitute the real prizes Of the bar.
They are to be sought rather in the in
comes which lead successful advocates
to regard judgships In the light of re-
firing pensions. If proprietary chapels
brought their owners III, 900 or fl5,00o
a year. We should have a counterpart
to this in the church. But there is moth
ing of the kind, nothing which can hold
out to a man OF exceptional ability the
prospect of a large income dependent
on his own efforts.
In addition to the dignities, which at
the best only answer to the legal posts
which a successful barrister thinks
twice and thrice before he accepts,
there are a very few good livings, pro-
motion to which is in a great degree a
matter of interest or chance, and thai
Is all. With medicine the comparison
Is more equal, because, though in this
also Very large incomes a be made in
private practice, there are absolutely
lio official prizes. Only one kind of sue
cess Is open to the physician or the sur
geon, and that is the success which has
Tor It's outward and visible sign a
thronged waiting room and more pa.
tents than an be crowded into a day