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Show ' $4.ooo.0no. having been appraised The Income of the Incuuibi-uis a large share of which i it, rived from rentals, the recnry h in louvd as a restaurant. The c.r.rcuuiiuu of both churchea combine! U(H gf. lice to fill of v1ilicr one of them It was propo,,! to unite the parishes and sell miv of the churches. Allhallows was quite vu. Ing to absorb St. Edmund, and Si. Edmunds was equally w iil.i:;; to annex Allhallows, but neither wuuM consent to its own extinction. For many years the rector of Allhallows was the Rev. Gtvi'!:i Rawllu-son- , residential canon of i'antrrbuiy Cathedral. The living is controlled by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury and they conferred It on oue of their own number. Mr. Raasinson employ, ed a curate who in iwpt payment of hla stipend received $25'u a year from the Haberdashers company. under an ancient benefaction, for lectures which he did not deliver, klr. Rawlinson did no parish work himself, was absent, thirteen weeks each year at Canterbury, and took an additional afx weeks for bis annual vacation. Altogether he put lu 116 hours a year at the church, for which he was paid at the rate of $77.50 an hour. Besides tills he received $2,500 a year for his rjaoury. Political life In America yields many are easy billets, but they always of uncertain tenure and, for downright soft snaiw will not rompere with some in the Church of England that last for lire. The rector of St. Ethel-burg- a drew $5,500 a tear from hi a church, paid a curate $910 a year to run it for him, and for twenty year never entered Its doors. MONEY ON THE BIDE. The law la stretched to its utmost limits to protect the Chun-of England Incumbent in his living. His rhurrh may be rinsed, or torn down, but the perish must still continue to pay him hie salary as long as he lives even though he does absolutely nothing to earn it And all the while, too, he may add to hla Income by leasing the rectory, which he dues not occupy. Canon MacCoIl of Klpon Cathedof the ral, one of the shining light rhurrh, la rector of HL George's lane, which was closed In 1891, and recently waa torn down, hut all these years the canon, who makes a specialty of denouncing Turkish misrule, has continued to draw $3,000 a year from HL George's pariah while receiving another $2100. a year from Ills cannnry. which ocriipies him only three months In the year. Iter I or of city churches add In the aggregate several thousand dollars to their incomes by delivering lectures devoand sermons for which long-dea- d Rome of tees left liberal bequest. them have very queer origins. While traveling In Arabia Sir John Gayer, who became Lord Mayor of London lu 1646, narrowly enraped being devoured by a lion, and so he sot aside a sum of money that his deliverance might be annually commemorated for all time by a special sermon.. This is known as the Sermon, and Is now preached at St. Catherine Cree Church. Under a bequest left by one Peter Synionde In the sixteenth century the rector of Allhallows, Lombard street, paid for delivering a sermon every Good Friday to sixty youngsters of the Blue Oust School. As an inducement for them to attend they all receive at the termination of the service a new penny and a package of almonds and raUins. Fifteen churchea which would Include those best worth preserving would more than amply suffice for the If the religious needs of the city. rest were sold, the money thus obtained and the revenues attached to them would yield. It ha been estimated, an Income of $590,(HHI a year, with which cores of rbun-hemight be built and endowed In districts where they are needed. SOFTEST OF SNAPS. But the efforts made by the Bishop of London to diniiiiiHh the number of thene costly and superfluous city churches have tieen repeatedly defeat-ed- . Reccully ho proiioxed to unite St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, with the nearby church of BL Lawrence, Jewry. Burned down in tho great fire of 1666 and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren eleven years later, aa an antique St. Mary's is undoubtedly precious. Hut aa a house of worship it is a costly and abject failure. Each of its worshippers represents an annual expenditure for hla rpiritual welfare of $425. On an average there are only twelve of them at the Sunday morning service and eleven at the evening. Yet it maintains a reel or, curate, choir, organist, beadle, sexton and vestry rlerk, the result being that nut of lia revenue of $6,675 a year there remains only $70 to distribute among the poor of the parih. Tho rector lives In Middlesex, remote from hts flock, lie is an aged man. having occupied bis particularly easy billet for half a renlnry, but. he displayed energy In drumming iip votes enough to defeat the Bishops scheme of union. It is extremely doubtful, said Archdeacon Sinclair to your correspondent. "whether public opinion will permit the demolition of any more of these old churches." A little later, af ter adverting to the inabilily of the ecclesiastical authorities to provide churches enough to satisfy the needs of London's fast growing population amounting to an increase of some a year he added, with a sigh: t BEAUTIFUL PULPITS MAMMON WHERE HOLDS SWAY one-quart- 0f Ancient Churches Within the Old City of London Draw Enormoue Salaries for Preaching 1,1 .ltar, Double and Sometimes Treble Mainly to Empty Pewa They Neglect Pariah Work and Often Whilo They live Remote. From Business for Rectories Their Purposes Incomes Leasing by Their Flocka. .. Their Conditions which Hare led the Greatest Scandad in England's Church and Defeated Efforts at Reform Archdeacon Sinclair Says the Reason the Church of England Is Unpopular Is Uanifest. I by Curtis Brown. . In her recent aav. on the Church of Marie Corelli omitted all zlriaa what really constitute the EsUbllshed vandal la the SuA That is the neglect of cleri-th- e spiritual lethargy and Z extravagant waste of money which of Zricierize the administration ZeTare known as the City Churches in many of them the av-- 1 Zee congregation is outnumbered by I theebolr and other paid officials. Yetthe costly parapherthey U maintain 1904, Aug. 4. tonight, The conditions which have made this state of affairs possible are peculiar. Roughly speaking, that portion of London which is designated as the city" and has its own separate municipal government occupies a square mile, with the Bank of England aa the now center. Within this area are standing no less than fifty beautiful old churches. Very picturesque they look amid the swarming hives of commerce and trade. Their presence suggests an interest in things spiritual among the hurrying throngs of money seekers who 111! the streets which, the residential districts; and while numbers of those working in the little has constantly increased, city' amounting now to considerably more than a nJlllon, the dwellings WUthiu its boundaries have steadily diminished until they now number only about 16.000. Most of these are caretakers and people in humbler walks of life whose natural religious affiliations are with the nonconformist bodies. In consequence of these changes the churches are now far in excena of the religious needs of the populace, and on Sundays for the most part they present a melancholy array of empty pews. At the same time the lucres ed value of real estate and other ancient benefactions from which much of their Income la derived haa largely Increased their revenues and correspondingly the salaries of their of these churches, 'At forty-sevecapable of accommodating 20.000 worshippers, the average attendance at the two Sunday services, including clergy, choir and officials, amounts to for each service. In mainseventy-fivtaining these churches 1313.425 a year Is expended, which works out $44 s head for each attendant. Including those who are paid to be present. The Incumbents income of the forty-seveaverage aggregates 9317.260, which $43122 for each of them. But the alg niflcance of these figures is fully revealed only when considered in connection with those that apply to the whole churrb. Of the 14.0(H) benefices In the Church of England 7,000 are grintly known aa "starvation livings, being of less than 9309 a year and 300 less than $250. No wonder some of those overworked and underpaid ones look wit h longing eyes on the possessors of these fat city livings and occasionally raise their voices in protest against such glaringly unequal divisions of salary and islmr. ONE OFFICIAL TO TWO WORSHIFFER8. Within 360 yards of the Church of St. Stephen, Walbrook, which is situated close to the Lord Mayor's residence and the Bank of England, fourteen other churches are clustered. Between them these fifteen persons receive In salaries, rentals or rectories for business purposes and pickings of one kind and another, nearly $80,000 annually, an average of more than $5,300 each. A count taken of their congregations at a Sunday morning service, children included, footed 502, while the rlergy, choir and officials numbered 23 lesa than two worshippers to n e a stir-prisi- whem ZUjy mow sznwon ni w annual, Uhml la Bttaia is fkeachkd. Em tto Beetor I Snutntd to Pnaft a Banana tSa Stoasa at Ulc Mb Oa J tka Klaa al Umto WkUa Car a pula of worship supposed to be no- Blnlgter to well filled pews. Their iscom bents are paid big sal it of all proportion to the Fork exactei of them. Many of them feeble, asd In some cases treble, their PWte by leasing their rectories for Purposes while they reside iiles in comfortable u !i.UleIr tones remote from fwa their engaging in pariah work "7 of hsrdly ny pretense. Note them add to their resources by professorships during the week-S- . other nndertaklng secular "Ith the large majority of a Pnfnphrase famous Amerl- 7,B6. office is a pri- religions Vt imp. Im unfortunately, la not verfied by closer Indeed, their buslneaa investigation. environment has triumphed over the churches themselves, and their Incumbents appear to be Just as, much infected by the spirit of Mammon aa the thousands who dally paaa the church doors hut never enter them. WEALTH INCREASES, CONGREGATIONS DECREASE. In the old days, when these churches were built most of them by Sir Chrishants. topher Wren after the great tradesmen and apprentices and the lived where they worked churches well filled their purpose of houses of worship. But with the expansion of London came an increasing separation between the business and fire-merc- In all Christendom there Is nothing so scandalous to be found, Is the Indignant comment of one Church of England Clergyman. The Union of Benefice act was paused In 1860 with the object of uniting many of the city parishes and selling the sites of some of the most obviousthe ly superfluous churches that money realised might be applied where it would do far more good. But the art has proved a virtual failure. In the forty-foyears that have elapsed since it became operative only eighteen churches have been weeded out, and several efforts made to reduce the number of those remaining have been defeated because of the difficulties Incurred In procuring the resignations of Incumbents, and the consents of vestries and imtrons private persons c and corporations having the bestowal of many of the livings. A typical example is furnished by 6t Mary Woolnoth, standing at the apex of Lombard (London's Wall Btreet) and King WTlIlam street. The church haa been compelled to submit to the Invasion of ite cellars by an. underground electric railway which has transformed them Into a station. It waa proposed to unite this church with one of six churches within a time's throw of 1L the Incumbents of which receive for preaching for the or hiring most part to empty pew curates to do It Incomes aggregating $45,720 annually, an average of over $7,000 for each parson. The parish of BL Mary Woolnoth baa a Bleeping population of under '200; the church hae accommodation for 450; the average attendance at the Sunday morning serand at the evening vice la thirty-siservice thirty even which Includes choir and all. The salary of the rector la $1,330. but lie Is a like most of the Incumbents of the I city churches and by leasing his rec-tory for buxlnees purposes adds $4,- 500 a year to bla Income. The church possesses none of the scantily which is supposed to attach to all of Sir Christopher Wren's ecele- After the great slsstlral buildings. fire It waa rebuilt by Nicholas Hawksmoor. one of Wren's pupils, but possessed of none of his genius. The site has been officially appraised at $2.-975.000. With this money and that obtained from the sale of the rectory, and other revenues attached to the parish, several churches might lie built In the suburbs and liberally endowed. But the proposed union was consents the seces-sr-y defeated; could not be obtained; there were too many good things st stake. THE INVISIBLE CHURCH. Allhallowa, Lombard street, and the Church of St. Edmund-tbe-Kinfur nish still more striking examples of financial waste and mpasre spiritual harvests. The two churches stand back to bark. Both were designed by Wren, bnt that hardly can be now urged as a reason for the preservation of since it Is so hemmed in by business buildings that It ban br-But dubbed the invihible church." the site is an extremely valuable one. nnop orIMmtoxnox. m Qa tRr I RICHEY. UNDERTAKER 'Phone 150 2372 Washington Are. The Depot Drag Store We make $ specialty of Prescriptions. WILL YOU Telephone orders promptly attended to. Invest In a piece of unimproved landf In Weber County! Adjoining improved farms? Half mils from R. R. Station f Right next to Irrigation Canal f Providing you can buy on monthly paymontaf Say $10 or $15 or $20 per month f Or quarterly? 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A small fissure In the rocka forming the roof of the tunnel now being dug under East CS. Continuous quotations on New York Stocks and Chicago Gram. We boy sad sell stocks and grain on margin or for cash. Our private reams e stab's our customers to coma In and transact business with tbs utmost secrecy. Write for our Book of Information (System of Speculation'), free upon application. 2482 Washington. TUNNEL $al place of land will coat yau $20 ! CawlaS IN EABT RIVER CUMMINGS COMMISSION BROKERS. par aero. I 1' LEAKAGE If So x, i .. us 40,-00- ti each official. t FIS8URE CAUSES TROUBLESOME was quickly checked and tha tisxnrs successfully sealed. An air kick at the end of the affected troth) a prevented the water from reaching the outer portion of the tun col and no permanent damage waa done. Ted-dingto- n, 'a n I regret to say that the Church of England is not popular. When a man of Archdeacon Sinclair's character and wide knowledge of affairs expresses such au opinion it cannot be disputed. Until the Church of England purges itself of such a scandal as the city churches present it will continue to be unpopular. While public opinion strongly favors the preservation of most of these old churches, it would hail with satisfaction any effort to rid them of their enormously overpaid and underworked Incumbents and the costly paraphernalia of worship maintained In them. In striking contrast to the high standard of economy and efficiency that characterises the administration of the churches. Another scandal which the Chnrch of England will have to put a stop to before it beeomea popular Is the traf-fi- o In livings. In a recent year seventy-four changed hands for guld. Mr. Hooley, of company promoting notoriety, purchased one which he subsequently sold to (he man who is now suing him for frand and conspiracy, E. LISLE SNELL. R. P. 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