Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-03-25
wELL-PAID PREACHERS.
What Religion Costs the People Of
England.

What Religion Costs the People Of
England.
A great lot of letters written by the
brothers, by Susan Wesley. by George
Whitefeld, by William Wilberforce and
others of historical Significance were
recently discovered, many of which are
soon to be given to the public. These
letters deal entertainingly and instruc.
lively with the early days of the Meth
| odist movement, and cannot fail to be
received with pleasure by the clerical
and lay members of that wonderfully
grown church. Founded in 1899 by the
two brothers, the Methodists, under
their various designations of Wesleyan,
New Connection, Primitive, ETC., now, in
this kingdom alone, have a member
ship of s44,26O, with 4,249 ministers and
40,350 lay preachers, and Sunday
school of 1,S11,700 scholars. In this
blessed land the Methodist houses of
worship are not named as churches, but
are styled chapels. The Methodists
here have 1880 chapels of varying sizes
less stately than the sanctuaries of the
Established church and of the Roman
Catholics. But the lack of material
splendor does not render the noncon-
formist conscience any less tenacious
of its purpose to save the world, and it
is possible to say that the most agrees
sive religious force in England is by no
means the affluent and legally fortified
Established church, whose high priests
are peers of the realm. The Methodist,
the Presbyterian, the Baptist and like
outer barbarians, MAY not Toll in lux
urious ease at the state expense, so that
it is not surprising that the spirit of
progressive liberalism which permits
laborers and men of the trades to get
into p; rliament is gradually preparing
the way for the inevitable disestablish-
ment of the Church of England. AS
matters now stand it costs a pretty
penny to maintain the pomp of that
church of which 1.-The queen is the SUI
preme governor ON earth"
The salary of the primate (archbishop
of Canterbury is the goodly sum of
The archbishop of York has $4,000; the
bishop of London, $4,000; the bishop
of Durham, $4,000; the bishop of Win
chester, $32, 500; the bishop of Bangor,
SCI 600; the bishop of Bath and Wells,
$25 900; the bishop of Ely, $500; of
Gloucester, $4,000; of Chester, $21 900;
of Exeter, SCI 900; of Hereford, Lich-
field, Liverpool, Llandaff, Manchester,
Ripon, st. Asaph, 1000 each; of Car
Isle, Lincoln, Norwich, Peterborough,
St. Davids, $22,50O each; Oxford, Sails
bury, Worcester, $4,000 each; New
castle, $4,000; Rochester, $4,000; st.
Adams. $4,000; Sodor and Man, $4,000;
Southwell, $17,5OO; Truro, $4,000;
Wakefield, $4,000, and then think Of
the army of deans, bishops suffragan,
canons, ETC., and one may infer that the
Church of Eng land is am expensive in
stitution representing a very high
average of cost for each soul brought
to grace. But then, as this old world
goes, religion is o. luxury of pretty in
diligence, and in England it is inspir-
ingly picturesque in it's outward show.
And little something is being sent in
Christian way to the foolish people of
India who have taken it into their
stomachs to starve.-Elwyn A. Barron,
in Chicago Times-Herald.