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Show Leernfng Amoug the Clergy. The Idea that the business of a clergyman cler-gyman Is to maintain and spread belief In a particular rollgion which be ba-lleves ba-lleves to have been revealed, and of a bishop to see that ho does It, Is slowly dying away, until there Is a doubt whether learning Is of any use, and the mnn who prosnrssrs It, especially If It be of the older kind, Is regarded ofton with kindness no doubt, and sometimes some-times with admiration, but usually with a pity from which contempt la not entirely absent. "What could you expect!" said a country town magnate a few years ago when told that the largest parish was fulling Into disorder. disor-der. "Why E (the rector) Is a Hebrew He-brew scholar." Ixndun Spectator. |