THE SUPPLY OF ORDINANDS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SD,--It is, no doubt, possible to obtain clergy by paying for their training, but it will probably be found that most people 'who do not require that financial help do not want to be ordained.
The headmaster of a public school told me that most of his boys decided before- they left school that they did not wish to be ordained, and that in most cases their parents agreed with them on the subject. That seems likely to continue until the facts are faced. But people who know the facts have found by experience that when they say what they know, they are regarded as having a grievance, and so they become reticent.
If there was to be a real desire to face the facts, arrange- ments could be made such that people would be as ready to be ordained as to enter other walks in life.
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