The Cairo bulletin., 1907-01-23

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Residence of Archbishop of canter
bury.
George are touring the country aud de
liyering fierce attacks on the bishop.
in the house Of lords--who are as
serted to be useless and dangerous
as well as clogs to progress
Many strong church of England
members are in favor of a complete
| separation of church and state. while
others fear that the revenues of the
cmrch-if cut OFF from public support
--will not be sufficient to keep it go.
ing
Naturally the bishops in the house
/ OF lords are preparing to fight hard for
/ their own interests which lie mainly
in keeping up the established church
as an integral part OF the English po-
| litical machine Twentyfour bishops
and two archbishops Of the English
church have always been entitled to
sit in the house OF lords, forming the
lords spiritual of the upper cham
Der
Throughout the past, the lords spir.
ltual or the bishops in the house Of
lords-are accused of having steadily
opposed many measures Of popular re
form,
1t is on this account that Lloyd
George and other popular leaders are
beginning determined attack on the
Church OF England, BY disestablish-
ing the church and throwing 1t on its
own resources, they wish TO remove
the ecclesiastical body from political
temptation.
Aside from the great political infiu-
ence welded by the church party, pub
lie attention has recently been called
to the very curious state OF affairs ex.
listing within the ranks of the clergy
themselves.
What has brought home the short |
comings Of the Church of England to !
the London public more than anything |
else recently is the agitation which |
has been raised over the empty |
churches of London itself Though |
many of these churches are practically |
without a congregation, it has been
thought fit to keep them up just the
same as II there was a full attendance.
According to a list just compiled by
Rev. Henry Clarke. there are Is
churches In the city of London itself
he total congregation Of which amount
altogether 70 only l48 persons. The
lpkeep Of these churches is s49, 665.
The salaries when many ciergymen
lraw from the public exchequer, and
he fact that their churches are get
ing more empty every day, has
brought the people face to face with
he question OF either keeping the
bishops, archbishops and other eccles-
lstics under the patronage of the
tate. or turning them adrift and let
ing the church Of England take care
# itself
The archbishop of Canterbury, for
prelate, or primate OF
he Church OF England-to-day draws
salary of $4,000 a year while he
as in addition. as part OF his official
tan a dean. drawing $4,000 year.
nd SIX assistants. each Of whom
raws $5,000-the total salary list Of
he chief officials in the primate's Of
&c being thus $4,000 year. to say :
othing OF the 80 or so minor prelates S
ttached to the archblshopric. s
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le archbishop Of York. with a trihing $
ilary Of $4,000 a year. assisted also u
y aeaa az $4,000 per" and four +
inor prelates each drawing $4,000 a
Ear T
The bishop Of London Is another I
'0.00o-a-year churchman. assisted BIZ II
$4,000 dean and four "canons." "
ich drawing the modest stipend OF G
1000 per annum. a
In addition to those prelates men Il
Juel above there are others drawing e
2 pay Of which the following is only d
partial list: The bishop OF Winches-
r. $4,000 q year. assisted by a So Il
0 dean. bishop Of Durham $4,000. ii
tn dean az $4,000: bishop of Ely. d.
: 500 a year. and his dean. $500: j.
P bishops of Gloucester. Oxford. "a
orecs-er Salisbury and Bath and "
ellis each with 5000 a year; while 7
en- email towns such as Bangor. Chi al
ester. Exeter. Hereford. Lincoln. u
ndaif. St Davids and other minor r.
ices have bishops whose salaries are ~
under 10000 year. VI