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- Every district ! or parish has" its church " ; but a rectory generally eoiitairts several districts , sometimes six or seven * The rector , who has the care o £ these congregations , is
appointed , ih some cases , by the King , and * in others , by the Consistorial Court . la the latter-instance the Court decides upon three candidates , and the parish has the right of electing the one whom they may think proper . The Lord of the Manor sometimes
possesses the privilege of electing the rector . This privilege is called Jus Patronatus . * Iri most places the rector has curates and chaplains to assist him . These
are always appointed and paid by the parish . The rector is also allowed a separate assistant , who is called an adjunct , when he arrives at a certain age , or possesses many occupations . The rector himself pays this assistant .
A contract or prewstery consists of six , ten , and sometimes fourteen rectories , and one of the rectors is called the Contraet-Prewst . In other cases the title of Prewst is conferred by the biahop upon any rector whom he may please to select .
If a rector die after the 1 st of May , liis widow or heirs are entitled to the profits of the rectory until the 1 st of May next ensuing . If he leave a widow , or children under age , they receive , besides the above , an amount
equal to one year ' s profits , and if he die poor , to an amount equal to two years' profits . These are called single and double years of grace . In some dioceses there are founded widow-seats
or habitations , the product of which the rector ' s widow collects while she remains unmarried . On the appointment of a bishop , each rector gives a vote to three individuals : these are not of necessity
clergymen . The votes having been collected , three names which possess the greater number of votes are submitted to the King , who has the power of appointing the one whom he shall please , to the office of bishop .
The Doctors of Theology are appointed by the King . The Rectors of Cathedrals are called Doom-Prewsts or Deans , and reside * Some few parishes also possess the Jus Patronatus *
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in all towns where there are bishops . They are elected in the same manner as the other rectors . The . CJhurch ceremonies are more solemnly performed than those of the Reformed Churches , particularly on
grand festivals . The use of candles upon the communion-table and the pulpit at Christmas , is , however , owing to there being so little day-light at the time of these holidays , as to be often insufficient for the performance of public worship . In addition to
this , on Christmas-day early matins are held , when it is absolutely necessary that the churches should be lighted . In most towns matins are very frequently performed , and in the larger ones , oh every Sabbath , there are Even-songs . In the country , where the aumber of churches often exceeds
that of the clergymen in each rectory , but one sermon is preached , except on Christmas-day 5 and , in many places ,, public worship is performed in rotation in the different churches of the rectory , one of them being
always without service . In the Western parts of Sweden , the clergyman is sometimes obliged to perform duty in one church , and afterwards to travel eight or ten English miles to preach in another . There are some churches
in which service is performed but a few times in the course of the year . There formerly existed throughout Sweden a custom , which still prevails in some parts of the country , which is this : the beadle walks up and down
the aisles during sermon-time , holding in his hand a rod , and if he find any individual napping , he strikes the floor with his staff ; if this do not succeed in awakening the sleeper , he is at liberty to rouse him by applying his rod to the shoulder of the offender .
Another custom , which , however , is discontinued in the larger towns , is that of collecting money during the sermon , in a bag affixed to the end of a long stick , which is often furnished with bells . Of the money thus
collected part is applied to the uses of the church , part is given to the priest , and part is devoted to charitably purposes within the parish . For the same object , plates are deposited at the church doors , in the towns , after sermon-time , into which individuals may drop their donations .
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198 The Nonconformist . No * XXVIIL
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/6/
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