10 AUGUST 1951, Page 16

SIR.—How would your contributors (and all concerned) like to be

paid once a year in arrears? What a nightmare ! For ages many Church of

'.Scotland ministers were in that unenviable position, and badly paid at that. Now, many are paid half-yearly—still a nightmare _ If men would count• their blessings-and envy less, it would be a happier _world.. But, of course, that has nothing to do with making ends Meet.—