24 JULY 1936, Page 22

THE LONDON CLERGY HOLIDAY FUND [To the Editor of THE

SPECTATOR.]

Sm,—We should be grateful if you would allow us to make an appeal in your columns for the London Poor Clergy Holiday Fund. This Fund, which was started by Archbishop Idaclagan, then Vicar of Kensington, in 1878, gives grants to the poorer clergy in the Diocese of London, and also makes block grants to South London (Diocese of. Southwark), and to London-over-the-Border (Diocese of Chelmsford).

Clerical poverty still remains in London. The clergy get , overworked and weary, and a few weaks in the country or at the seaside are greatly needed. Thcre are many clergy who would not get a real holiday except for the grants received from this Fund.

Donations may be sent to the Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Prebendary Vincent, St. Martin's Church, Ludgate Hill, E.C. 4, or to the Westminster Bank, 5 St. Paul's Churchyard, E.C. 4.

ERNEST N. SHARPE, Archdeacon of London ; S. H. PHILLIMORE, Archdeacon of Middlesex ; C. E. LAMBERT, Archdeacon of Hampstead.