A PRELATE’S OFFER
REDUCTION OF INCOMES VACATION OF PALACE CHURCH AND PRIVILEGE (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, November 21. The Bishop of Ely (Dr. Hey wood) offered the Ely Diocesan Conference at Cambridge today to give up his palace and £IOOO a year of his income so that he could go and live permanently in a six or eight-roomed house, says the Evening Standard. He made the offer after he had asked if the Church today seemed to the average man to belong to th* privileged classes. “It is not our wish that it should be so, he said; “maybe it is not so. But would a gesture help? “Then let every diocesan bishop be set free to vacate his so-called palace, surrendering enough of his income to enable the Church to keep up the house for some religious or philanthropic purpose. So far as I am concerned, I make that offer here and now.
“Let me give up £looo' a year at least and go permanently into a six or eight-roomed hose, and use the surplus income as it should be used, to advance the kingdom of God.” The income of the See of Ely is £4OOO a year.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 10
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200A PRELATE’S OFFER Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 10
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