Clerical Incomes: An Inquiry Into the Cost of Living Among the Parochial Clergy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

John Howard Bertram Masterman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331891191 ISBN 13: 9781331891192

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Clerical Incomes: An Inquiry Into the Cost of Living Among the Parochial Clergy

The actual facts about the incomes of the clergy cannot be gathered from any mere col lection of statistics; they are known only to those who are brought into intimate contact with their home life. It seemed, therefore, that the best way to present them to the public would be to invite a certain number of leading churchmen who have special knowledge of the facts to write of what they know. Every contributor to this volume has been left free to treat the subject in whatever way he judged best. The cumulative evidence thus gathered from various dioceses will serve to show how serious the problem is with which we are con fronted. The Dioceses Of London, Manchester, Birmingham, Southwell, Norwich, and Salisbury were selected as typical of industrial and country dioceses; and the Bishops of Lichfield and Colchester, the Dean of York, Canon Partridge and the Rev. A. G. B. Atkinson have all been closely associated with the administrative work Of the Church.

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Excerpt from Clerical Incomes: An Inquiry Into the Cost of Living Among the Parochial Clergy From time to time attention is directed to individual cases of poverty among the parochial clergy, but no attempt has hitherto been made to state the facts with regard to the incomes of the clergy as a class. Their natural reluctance to encourage public discussion of their domestic affairs has resulted in widespread ignorance of the real facts. It is generally assumed that most of them are able to supplement the inadequate incomes of their benefices from their own resources. No doubt a considerable number of the clergy have some private means, or they could not live at all; but the supply of candidates for Holy Orders has been drawn chiefly from the professional class, in which the struggle to maintain a reasonable standard of life is more severe at the present time than in any other class. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331891191
• ISBN 13: 9781331891192
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 315