SAD CASE OF A BISHOP.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 173, 12 May 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

SAD CASE OF A BISHOP.

Pity the poor Bishops! (says " John Bull"). The cry often goes up, because, you know, their miserable incomes are quite insufficient to maintain them in that simple condition of life to which they, as successors to the poor fishermen of Galilee, desire piously to conform Think of the sad state of the Bishop of Chichester. Here is his wife, Mrs. Bishop, if you please, obliged to advertise thusly: "Can any Lady recommend a strong capable girl of 16 as scullerymaid? Church of England; some knowledge of cleaning, etc., necessary." She need only know a bit about washing up and scrubbing, but she must subscribe to the 39 Articles! However, that ia not the point. This is: "Three in family, nine servants kept.—Address, Mrs. Ridgway, The Palace, Chichester." Throe in family —my Lord Bishop, Mrs. Bishop, and A. N. Other—and only nine attendants to minister to their creature comforts. Truly do the servants of the Lord find their ways set in hard places.