THE COUNTRY CLERGY HOLIDAY FUND [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.]
Sia,—Holiday time is approaching, and we are most of us thinking of where we shall go, and how we shall spend the time of leisure. May we ask you to allow us to plead for those who need a holiday, and that urgently, but who, for financial reasons, are unable to take one ?
We are thinking of those whose needs are too often over- looked and forgotten. We are wont to picture country clergy as in rural felicity. But they are often very sorely tried by their isolated and monotonous lives with little con- genial society, little interchange of ideas, and the same dull round of unchanging duties. They do not often complain, and even rejoice to bear their burden. But it is a burden, and it should be the happy privilege of those who have more of this world's goods to help to relieve them. This can be done by a timely gift through which change and rest may be had ; and that, not only to the enjoyment and advantage of the clergy themselves acquiring renewed vigour of mind and body and freshness of thought, but incidentally to the parishioners to whom they minister.
We would, therefore, ask those who are preparing for their own holiday in the months that are coming, to spare something for the Country Clergy Holiday Fund. May I add that neither contributions nor applications for help should be addressed to me, but to our Secretary, Mr. Mandeville B.
Phillips, 38 Tavistock Tavistock Square, London, W.C. 1 ?—I am, Sir, &c.,
WM. RUSSELL,
Chairman of the Committee, 88 Tavistock Place, Tavistock Square, W.C. 1.
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