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Show o HITS THE ANGLICAN CHURCH. The Irish Land Bill may be considered con-sidered from many points of view; the clergy of the Anglican church in Ireland Ire-land have been considering from theirs. The bishop of Downs, at the i recent diocesan conference, told his ' hearers that the Disestablished Church had more than 3,000,000 invested in-vested in mortgages upon Irish land. Under the operation, of the bill this sum will be repaid in full. But the 1 bishop is still unhappy because he j foresees that it will be impossible to obtain from other investments the ' rate of interest hitherto secured from ' the necessities of the Irish Landlords. The bishop reckons the los3 arising j from this necessity of being content i in the future with a normal rate of ' interest at 30,000 a year. Altogeth- j er the bishop felt the outlook was a ! gloomy one. "He regarded the future i with the utmost apprehension. There were many cases where a landlord a j small landlord possesses a townland I In a country parish. Such owners ' had in the past from year to year con- j tributed to the parish fund3 in pro- i portion to the Income received. When I they had been bought out under the Land Bill their connection with the parish would cease, and although, from old associations, they might dur- ' ing their lifetime continue to contribute, contri-bute, their successors were very little likely to do so. There was another factor in the case which must be remembered. re-membered. The owners of the soil up to the present had to a great extent been members of the Church of Ire- 1 land. This would not be so in the future. fu-ture. Roman Catholic and Presbyterian Presbyter-ian owners would largely outnumber members of the Church of Ireland" Perhaps under these circumstances the Disestablished Church will see the propriety of abandoning its absurd claim to be called "the Church of Ireland. |