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contingencies , their benefices never rise higher ? la the * Archbishop unaware that Drake * Blake , Marl borough , Wolfe , Nelson , Wellington-, all united , did not share among them in the course of their victories , victories that have saved their country and many others from slavery aud ruin , two-thirds of this stipend ? Is the Archbishop ignorant that
the Pope him elf , whose power rests upon splendour , cannot command for private purposes fifteen thousand pounds a-year ? Will the people of England see with calmness , witli forbearance , with endurance , this sacrilegious rapacity ? Is there no danger that they may break the claw they cannot pare , and suffocate the maw they cannot satisfy ? And we are told , forsooth , that the dignitaries of the Church are readv
to make sacrifices ! This is the language ; yes , to make sacrifices ! Gold then is the sacred thing ! And what are they ready to give up ? That only which they never can spend decorously , and which was intrusted to them as administrators , not as owners . Even of this , howsmall is the portion they are willing to surrender ! There are por tions of tlie British empire , where three hundred clergymen professing , and iudefatigably teaching , the same faith as the -Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London , do not share among them , with equal abilities , equnl virtues , so large a sum of money as these two prelates . ' *
With jill Mr . Landor ' s orthodox claims , we are not sure that , the Bishops will think he stands the application of the old orthodox test % i le vrai Amphitryon est ou on diner He bears hard upon the " faring sumptuously every day " notwithstanding there is Scripture precedent for it . Moreover he rather inhumanly scoiis at the privations he would inflict .
" To return to the question of reducing the ecclesiastical salaries . " It is but fair to record the strongest arguments and most impressive appeal on the other side : and this I shall attempt to do , by recollecting the words us thev were suoken .
" A lady in the country was turning over the dried roses in her dragon jar , when her own maid entered the room , with a salt-cellar in one nand and a tcacupful of cloves in the other , to ensure the preservation of the floral mumnvy . This dialogue ensued . " ' Well , ma ' am ! true enough it is , that my lord bishop is to be put upon board-wa ^ es . Ho will have in future but a hundred pounds a-month , which God knows , is only twenty-five a * week . There aie some of their own cloth ( shame upon \ ni !) who have no bowels for the bishops . One , and he was old enough to know better , said on the
. " ' Seven years hence it will appear far stranger , that a reduction to such a sum should have been considered as a hardship , when my lords fell us that the clergy in Ireland are dying of hunger , and even obliged to mater the : garden , 41 'He went on , ma ' am , worse than that : he said ,
" Of what service are deans , canons , prebendaries , and precentors ? The Church of England is composed of bishop , priesty and deacon . ¦ " * I think , ma ' am , he counted wrong : theTe is clerk , wxton , and ringers We could not do without them : I know nothing about thov « other *; we have done without them pretty well , in these parts ) and belike they may do as well in other * . But to strip a bhhop ! There will
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/54/
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