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Show ENGLAND'S CLERGYMEN. The Rank and File Are Hard-Worked and Poorly Paid. Tho rank and file of tho clergy of the Established church are tho hardest worked and the poorest paid set of men In tho kingdom. I doubt whether thero is anywhero in the world a wealthier or a moro generous laity than the Church of England laity. It subscribes willingly and overwhelmingly to everything that Is churchy, to schools, mission halls, church benovolent societies, all forms of clerical philanthropic work, and of parochial endeavor, en-deavor, says a writer In Harper's Weekly. Week-ly. The statistics for a record year showed that the sums subscribed by churchmen amounted to S2C.059.0C0, or. if wo Include tho donations and subscriptions, subscrip-tions, to home and foreign missions, to JSJ.200.000. That Is truly magnificent. It Is equal to over JG from every housohold In tho kingdom: It exceeds tho sums by tithes plus the total lncomo' that accrues from all tho church proporty In tho country coun-try But vory llttlo of It finds Its way to tho clergy themselves. Tho total Income of tho 14,000 Incumbents Incum-bents Is only ?17.-100.00). or rathor lees than- an average of $1250 a year apiece. I need hardly say that thero aro thousands of clergy who fall miserably below this average. Flftcon hundred livings aro worth less than $500 a year, and four thousand thou-sand sevon hundred livings are worth leas than J1000 a year. In tho year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilco.a fund -was . Instituted to raise tho Income of the poorest poor-est livings to $1000. To do that It Is said that something llko- $2,000,000 per annum Is required. Tho actual amount subscribed. sub-scribed. -' la somcwhiro bctwoen $50,000 and $75,CC0 a year. Such figures tell a de-plorablo de-plorablo talc -nil tho "moro deplorable be-caueo be-caueo It Is unnecessary. i |