22 OCTOBER 1910, Page 17

CHURCH OF ENGLAND ORDINATIONS.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—On the same day that I read the letter from Canon Petit in the Spectator on candidates for Ordination, with your favourable comment thereon, I received an appeal from a lady for clothes, old or new, to be given to clergy in abject poverty. Is there any other profession in which the members have to ask their brethren for charitable assistance solely on the ground of the insufficiency of payment made for professional services P and is there not a need while we I r.wide workers to provide also the means required for their subsistence ? This is primarily a layman's question.—I am, Sir, &c., A PRIEST OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.