THE BISHOPS AND TIM SERMONS OF THE CLERGY. \ [To
THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Your correspondent, "Minor Canon," has asserted in your last number that "No bishop can require his clergy to preach a second sermon."
In the Pluralities' Act (1 and 2 Victoria, c. 106, sec. 80,) it is enacted, "That it shall be lawful for the Bishop, in his discretion, to order that there shall be two full services, each of such ser- vices, if the bishop shall so direct, to include a sermon or lecture -on every Sunday throughout the year, or any part thereof, in the church or chapel of every or any benefice within his diocese, what- ever may be the annual value or population thereof." And by the Church Building Act (58 George III., c. 45, sec. 65,) a power is given to the Bishop in certain circumstances even to order "an additional or third service, with a sermon."—I am, Sir, &c.,
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