GOMSHALL HOUSE OF REST.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1
Sra,—For several years past numbers of brain-fagged and toil-debilitated clergy of scanty means, some of them with their equally overstrained unpaid curates (I mean their wives Or sisters), have found a brief respite from their toils and cares in the Clergy Rest House at Gomshall, a quiet haven among the Surrey hills. During the past year so greatly has this boon been prized that relays of tired workers have succeeded each other during a far longer period than usual, making heavier demands on the cramped resources of this little institution, which stands in urgent need of external support, the guest fees being necessarily small and inadequate. The extra duties which the present war has entailed upon the parochial clergy, such as looking after the welfare of the fanulies of soldiers at the front and of sailors on the seas, are an additional cause of breakdown, which I know will evoke the ready sympathy of your readers. And if they will give practical effect to that sympathy by sending a donation to the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. J. E. C. Hordern, The Union of London and Smiths Bank, Notting Hill Gate, W., or to Miss Kingsford, Dumbarton House, Gomshall (who requires £300 immediately for the Maintenance Fund), they will really be doing a good work, not only for the helpers concerned, but for those to whom they so unselfishly and untiringly minister day by day.—I am, Sir, &o., H. G. BONAYIA-HUNT,
Vicar of Burgess Hill, sussex.
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