ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



Are* of Land In Acres. 



Ecclesiastical commissioners 149,882 



Bishops 22,4.4 



Deans 05,000 



College's of 'Oxford '.'. 126,879 



Colleges of Cambridge JSMS 



Glebe land 150,000 



626,77T 



On the other hand, it is asserted that the 

 revenues of the Church are altogether derived 

 from voluntary gifts, and a publication called 

 the National Church gives the following table : 



1. The endowments of the Established Church 

 amount to a little more than four millions ster- 

 ling. 



2. Of this- sum, 



Tithes and rents voluntarily given to the Church 

 of England by charitable persons BEFORE the 

 Reformation bring in 1,949,200 



Tithes, rents, and interest on money voluntarily 

 given to the Church of England SINCE the Ref- 

 ormation bring in 2,251,100 



Total endowments 4,200,300 



Of which sum the state takes as taxes, etc., othar 

 than income tax and sums usually paid by o> 

 cupiers 714,000 



Total net endowment 3,436,300 



3. The sum of 3,486,300 is, therefore, the 

 amount of the net salaries received by the 

 20,000 bishops, priests, and deacons of the 

 Church. It is thus divided : 



2 Archbishops ) 



26 Bishops V receive 133,630 



70 Archdeacons ) 



80 Deans. ] 



127 Canons I 



120 Minor deacons \ receive 201,600 



600 Singers 



Lay officers and servants J 



1 i,041 Rectors and vicars I . < u<i 1 00 



5,706Curates j- receive 3,14j,100 



Total net salaries 3,436,800 



The seventeenth annual meeting of the 

 Church Congress was held at Croydon, begin- 

 ning October 9th. The opening sermon was 

 preached by Canon Lightfoot. The Archbishop 

 of Canterbury presided, and made an opening 

 address, in which he said that the question 

 whether the congress was for the good of the 

 Church must be considered as settled favorably. 

 It operated, he said, as a kind of safety-valve, 

 furnishing the opportunity for the free expres- 

 sion of thought, and was also a manifestation 

 of motion and life in the Church. He spoke 

 of certain styles of discussion of theological 

 subjects as bearing a relation to regular argu- 

 ment similar to that which the operations of 

 irregular forces like those of Bashi-Bazouks 

 and Cossacks bear to those of the regular army, 

 and declared them out of place in the nine- 

 teenth century. At the close of his address, 

 he referred, amid loud expressions of applause 

 and some dissent from the audience, to the 

 Church of England as "the grand old historical 

 Church as it came to us from the fathers of the 

 Reformation." The discussions were opened 

 with the reading of a paper on " Mohamme- 

 danism," which had been prepared by Bishop 

 Steene, of Zanzibar. The subject was con- 



sidered in the paper, and in the remarks which 

 followed it, in the light of the most practicable 

 manner of introducing Christianity to the peo- 

 ple of the Mohammedan faith. The subject of 

 " Christian Faith and Skeptical Culture " was 

 considered in papers by Prof. Pritchard and 

 Prof. Wace ; that of " The Church in Relation 

 to Trades' Unions and Agricultural Laborers' 

 Unions," by the Rev. Mr. Oakley and the Rev. 

 V. H. Staunton. On the second day's session, 

 the papers read by Canon Garbet and Canon 

 Farrar on " The Best Means of promoting Uni- 

 ted Action and Mutual Toleration between Dif- 

 ferent Schools of Thought within the Church" 

 called forth an important and interesting dis- 

 cussion of the attitude of the several parties in 

 the Church toward each other. Other subjects 

 considered on this day were, "Representative 

 Assemblies of the Church of England, General 

 and Diocesan " (paper by Archdeacon Emery) ; 

 " Intemperance, and the Legislative Remedies 

 and Church Action by which the Evil should 

 be combated " (papers by Canon Duckworth 

 and Dr. A. Carpenter) ; " Pauper and Truant 

 Children" (papers by Francis Peck and R. 

 Weston) ; " The Church in Relation to Public 

 Amusements" (paper by Canon Money, of 

 Deptford) ; and " Charity Organization in its 

 Christian Aspect, with Reference to Almsgiving 

 and Medical and Provident Institutions their 

 Use and Abuse" (papers by Sir Lovelace T. 

 Stammer and Dr. Fairlee Clark). The prin- 

 cipal discussion of the third day was on " The 

 Readjustments, if any, desirable in the Rela- 

 tions between Church and State." The sub- 

 ject was opened with papers by Canon Greg- 

 ory, Canon Ryle, and the Rev. T. Lee. Other 

 subjects considered during the day were, "The 

 Position of Voluntary Schools under the Edu- 

 cation Acts of 1870 and 1876, and the Duty of 

 the Church with Reference to Board Schools" 

 (papers by Mr. Talbot, M. P., the Rev. J. Munn, 

 and Mr. Grantham, M. P.) ; " The Observance 

 of the Lord's Day" (papers by Archdeacon 

 Hessey, the Rev. J. C. Egerton, and the Rev. 

 J. Gritton, Secretary of the Lord's Day Ob- 

 servance Society) ; and " Personal Religion in 

 Daily Life." On the fourth day, papers were 

 read on " The Mutual Relations of the Church 

 and Nonconformity at Various Periods of the 

 Nineteenth Century," by Canon Curteis, Mr. 

 George Harwood, and the Rev. T. P. Gamier, 

 and the subject was discussed by the Dean 

 of Bangor, Mr. Thomas Hughes, the Rev. Levi- 

 son Loraine, Canon Ryle, the Rev. W. Ben- 

 ham, Canon Brooke, and Mr. Beresford Hope, 

 M. P. Papers were also read on " Biblical and 

 Theological Study " (the Dean of Durham, Prof. 

 Stanley Leathe, Canon Hoare, and the Bishop 

 of Lincoln); "The Permanent Diaconate and 

 Lay Help" (the Bishop of Guildford and Lord 

 Hatherly) ; " The Church's Duty toward Chil- 

 dren of the Upper and Middle Classes" (the 

 Rev. Dr. Butter, head master of Harrow School, 

 the Rev. R. Elwyn, and the Rev. E. C. Wick- 

 ham). The sessions closed with a conversa- 



