Volume 102 — THE ARCHDEACON ANSWERED.
Reading edition
[At the Annual Meeting of the Curates' Augmentation Fund, Archdeacon KAYE, of Lincoln, urged the desirability of imposing some limitation to the number ordained to the Ministry of the Church of England, as three-fifths of the Clergy were in poverty.]
"Oh, sad indeed it is to think," Quoth good Archdeacon KAYE, "That though our Clergy are so 'High,' So low should be their pay! "They fly to money-lenders' lures, To speculative chances; Advancement they appear to lack. And so they get advances. "This 'Discipline of Clergy' Bill On us is rather rough; Surely the bills our tradesmen bring Are discipline enough! "A fresh supply of Rectories Must really soon be found; All would be square, if once there were Sufficient to go round. "To get the Clergy out of their Pecuniary holes, The sole and only cure I see Would be—a Cure of Souls! "'One man, one Vicarage!'—the cry To stir a thoughtless nation; But just at present let us try Restricted Ordination!" "Free Trade in Curates!" shout our girls, Responsive from their pew; "You say there are too many, but We know there are too few! "Think of the budding Candidates For Orders, whom, no doubt, This limiting of out-put would Excessively put out! "If Curates now are destitute, A brighter future beacons; 'Tis only fair that all should share The stipends of Archdeacons!"
HONORIS CAUSÂ.
[The University of Dublin has decided to confer the Degree of D.C.L. on Mr. HENRY IRVING.]
J.L.T. (to Dr. Irving). "I SAY, HENRY,—'SCUSE MY GLOVE,—I'VE BEEN A DON MYSELF, DON'TCHERKNOW. I CAN GIVE YOU A TIP OR TWO ABOUT PLAYING THE PART!"
A GIFTED BEING.—The Daily Telegraph of June 11, in giving us some news from Cambridge about the Mathematical Tripos, had this paragraph—
"The Senior Wrangler, Mr. PHILIP HERBERT COWELL, son of Mr. H. COWELL, Privy Council Bar, was born in 1870, and was previously educated at Rev. E. St. JOHN PARRY's School, Stoke, Slough."
Now didn't such a start in life as being educated "previously" to being "born," give Mr. COWELL a somewhat unfair advantage over the other competitors? Very few come into the world with such a chance. "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them," says SHAKSPEARE. But to come into the world, like MINERVA, armed College-cap-à-pie, is, as Dominie Sampson would have said, "Pro-di-gi-ous!"