Clergymen
of the
Church
of
England
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I. | The Modern English Archbishop | 1 |
II. | English Bishops, Old and New | 16 |
III. | The Normal Dean of the Present Day | 31 |
IV. | The Archdeacon | 42 |
V. | The Parson of the Parish | 54 |
VI. | The Town Incumbent | 66 |
VII. | The College Fellow who has taken Orders | 78 |
VIII. | The Curate in a Populous Parish | 92 |
IX. | The Irish Beneficed Clergyman | 105 |
X. | The Clergyman who Subscribes for Colenso | 119 |
The old English archbishop was always a prince in the old times, but theEnglish archbishop is a prince no longer in these latter days. He isstill a nobleman of the highest rank,—he of Canterbury holding hisdegree, indeed, above all his peers in Parliament, not of Royal blood,and he of York following his elder brother, with none between them butthe temporary occupant of the woolsack. He is still one before whosegreatness small clerical aspirants veil their eyes, and whose blessingin the minds of pious maidens has in it something almost divi