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salaTy of the curate must pot be increased , for that would corrupt his mind ; the correlative assertion is , the salaries of the bishops should be taken away , for they have corrupted their rninds . Is * there , then , nothing that fequires amendment ? he asjss . " Yea , there } s much—much which , if not altered and that speedily , must ensure and preci ^ tate the downfall—and what is worse , justify the condemnation , of the present system of Church government . " «« That there have been gre ^ t abuses in the disposal pf Churc h
patronage , no one ca . n deny . We would be unwilling to impute them could ws discover any syraptpns of repentance or amendment . Pluralities aj ? e a great evi ) . " Yet , strange to say , he contend that they are a , necessary evil , rendered indispensable m order " to secure a competent provision for % b $ incumbent . " Poverty , we had been instructed , was the pnjy means of seeming humble , single-minded , ai * d spiritual men in the ministry ; an < I now ,, it seems , pluralities are justified , as tfyey serve to make a competent
proyisiori for the ipcurnbent , Let not pur readers imagine that the competency sp raised is for the curate ; he and the incumbent are ; two very different beings . The incumbent requires for his subsistence the produce of many parishes , while the cerate can do , and shocking is the thought of his hayipg ipore , with a moiety or less of one of his superior ' s livjngs . Jfoweyer , through the existence of pluralities , whether justifiable in their origin ; or not ,
" whole tracts of country have been deprived of pastoral superintendence ;" and plaip , therefore , is it that thejr continuance is contrary tp the clearest ; dictates of common sense . " But , " continues our writer , * ' woe tp those who aggravate this state of things by adding parish to parish for the benefit pf friends and connexions , imtil there is no place lefl for t \\ e useful labourer in the Lord ' s vineyard I Yea , we say to the episcopal Scribes and PJiari- * sees , Wpe . to them ! And shall we , dare we , conceal front * ourselves that such is to a shameless extent tbe case in the Church pf Ireland ? Tp 4 ^ ny
3 fapt s ^ o notorious were scarcely less unpardonable than the practice itself * Aiid if sorpethipg be not done to check it—if greater difficulties than appear s | t present to gxis ^ are not interposed to prevent the heaping of many t ? ene ^ ficjes l ^ pon the same individMa ) the CJhurch of Ireland ere long wiJjL substantially verif y jthej foyle ^ ]^ 1 pf its ipp ^ t virulept cal umniator , and fyecome ujdjee ^ iA . its bloated n ^ agnificence , the gorgeous nuisance it ; h ^^ e ^ n repp ^ -r sented , '? After this , syrejy the sturdiest advocate of things a § they ^ p w ill npt deny the necessity pf a change . More might be addled pf a ^ lmyar character ,, Thus : " Tbei prostitution of the Church patro ^ age ^ mu ^ t have be efff
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TAe WalQkman . 655
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 655, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/55/
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