CLERICAL SELF-CONCEIT.
[TO THE EDTTOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1
:SIR, It struck me, as I read your interesting article on " Clerical Self-Conceit," that you omitted one thing felt more or less acutely by us younger members of the Clerical profession. While all the rest of the world is so active and busy, we have so little to point to as our particular work. One can fancy this progressive age -calling us to account (and I think I hear it already doing so). 4‘ What, are so many thousands of educated men to be allowed any longer to waste their energies as the Clergy of the Church of England do, the majority of them doing little more than deliver- ing two or three sermons a week, and spending a few hours daily amongst the poor ?" It is a feeling of comparative inutility, quite apart from the discouragement which attends our efforts, which most effectually takes the conceit out of many of us, at the very -commencement of our clerical career.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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