"PASSING RICH ON £60 A YEAR."

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2534, 6 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

"PASSING RICH ON £60 A YEAR."

A MINISTER, writing to the British Weekly, says;—My clerical income does not quite reach i'liO a year ; one-tenth of it is set aside for charity and the work of God, and the rest keeps'us in food and firing. From other sources I derive a similar amount, and this pays for house rent (£l2 a year), gas, taxes, and clothes. My chapel is two miles from om of our pleasantest cities, and my people are all poor villagers, with incomes ranging from 1.-.3 to 18s per week. Our household till recently, was composed of myself, my wile, and three children, 17, 12, II -years old respect!'/:.|v. My wife and elder daughter, of course, keep house 111 cii■ Iv. s, and the children are riiie;!)! at home. We arc teetotalers, ami almost veeeta, i-.i.s ; indeed, it ia only by this mode of living that we can live comfortably on less than -l.jd per head per day. In summer our garden keeps us almost, for we live then mainly on fruit and vegetables ; and (except for the organic disease till'.: has recently terminated with my wife's death) the general le-allh ol our family has been excellent. My wife was a good in mag-", both as regards I'.-od and dollies, am: knew how to make b til go as tar as possible. New books are ottr greatest dillieully. 1 make. (Irent Thoughts, and (-1,,. It.:;: i, \Ve ■!-,!■• v-v '■■■■> ■! ri.-ulv |"»p-:' -'-'i general p'ii:>"-e-, -..'iti til. "or. i-Hi-t- it.-inli-o-,- ot - »-;«• bo-k, Sl'uit >••<•.!.•. ".10 'en th 'V„ (sume of my brcrheni will weil understand that feeling!, and we have all learned to as!; inn-selves this <jint.-lion before buying anyllone, ■' (Jan I. ilu without it?" It is astonishing ho-v f. w real wants we have and how many fancied one?. Wo have proved it is po.-sible lo live and live eunlortably, on much less than n year—indeed on a trillc under flit)—and we hive always been aide to help in a small way any others wor-r oil than nnricivc<i.