Show church too poor for offertories the bishop of bath and wells who is making a tour of his diocese visited one of its smallest parishes recently says the london daily mail this is the parish of langridge which consists of four farms and six or seven cotta cottages acs ics the income of the living Is 2 33 and the rector rev W V burland pays for everything himself when ho he entered upon the living mr air durland burland found that the offertories on a sunday amounted to nine penco or a shilling and so as he explained to the bishop lie he declined to hurt the poor peoples feelings by collecting from coln them |