WANTED, CURATES!

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3952, 7 June 1913, Page 3

WANTED, CURATES!

‘‘Curates are now scarce and dear. The vicar of Godaiming has been trying to find one for fifteen months, and has, so far, failed. He applied to the Bishop for help; and the Bishop had only one to recommend him. The insufficient stipends paid and the attraction of work in the dominions are alleged .as reasons- for this dearth. We confess we are. not in the least surprised that the supply of young men of the class needed who are attracted to Holy Orders is insufficient.” says the “Pall Mall.” “If there were even a fair prospect of preferment the curate’s stipend would be adequate to Ids early wants. But to go through life on £l5O a. year is not a. prospect to attract »a. young man with a. public school and a university education, however, unworldly lie may be. At least, it can only attract a few.“And the Archbishop: of Canterbury is now seeking five hundred young clergy to go to Canada. English churchmen should remember that, just because their church is endowed, the call on them is the more urgent to see that the endowments are sufficiently supplemented from voluntary sources to provide for the needs of the great towns at home and the dominions oversea.”