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OFFERTORIES AND COLLECTIONS AT ST. MARY'S DURING MARCH, 1906. WELSH. March 4th, March nth, March 18th, March 25th, 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. s. d. 10 ENGLISH. £ s. d. March 4th, March nth, March 18th, March 25th, 11-30 a.m. 6-30 p.m. 11-30 a.m. 6-30 p.m. 11-30 a.m. 6-30 p.m. 11-30 a.m 6-30 p.m. 14 Total (Welsh) A 4 9 Total collection for March, £8 6s. 4<i. Total (English) ^417 BAPTISMS. March 15th.—Willie Lloyd, son of Maggie Ellen Owen. Benllech Bay. ,, 15th.—Catherine Anne, daughter of Richard Henry and Esther Roberts, 23, Union-st. ,, 15th —Harriett, daughter of Hugh and Sarah Owen, 27, Union-street. I have much pleasure in publishing the following extracts out of the London Guardian, which is the recognised organ of the English Church dealing with some remarks of the Bishop of Birmingham and the cost of accepting a living and the poverty of the clergy :— SOCIAL EXTRAVAGANCE AND CHURCH REFORM. The Bishop of Birmingham, in the course of a Lenten address at the cathedral last week, severely condemned the excessive expenditure entailed by the following of fashion and the spirit of dependence of the well-to-do young men. People, he said, were apt to become slaves to expenditure by allowing themselves to grow to think that they could not do without it. We were led by an instinctive love of display, by a desire that our entertainment of our friends should not fall short of that which they had given to us, which in England had gone so far to make all social intercourse expensive. Why was it that in Germany or France official incomes were so very much lower than in England ? It was in a very large measure because our scale of expenditure and entertainment was absurdly and needlessly higher in England. The admonition was wanted quite as much by the wage-earners as the wealthy. He believed there was actually nothing which would do so much good in our present English life as that every young man should be made to feel that after he had been educated his subsistence depended upon working for it. In a conversation he had with a missionary from British Columbia, he was told that while Scotsmen and Americans conspicuously got on, it was generally different with the Englishmen. The Scotchman or American did not dream of depending upon anything but his own resources, while with the Englishman it was a matter of course that when he felt the pinch he wrote home for more money. It would make an enormous difference to society if all classes would refuse to provide for their sons living in idleness. Speaking at a Church Reform meeting at Hanley, on Tuesday, the Bishop observed that it was fatal to them to get nice and comfortably settled inside the church and to be content that those who were outside should remain outside. The most vigorous periods of the Christian Church had been those when the Church had drawn its strength from the body of the wage-earners. Church extension meant laying hold of the thousands outside the Church as well as to build churches and pay the stipends of curates. Lord Harrowby had touched the quick when he asked if the Church was the Church of the people. Unfortunately the expe¬ rience of many years had taught him how much there was to be said to the contrary. He believed that it was coming about in English politics that England was going to be governed more and more not only for the people, but by the people, and that a greater real share in the responsibility of government was going to belong to the wage-earning classes. He did not want the Church of England to be political, and he did not want it to take sides in what was commonly called party politics, but their real Church extension should be grounded on the lives of the wage-earning classes. It lay in getting hold of the wage-earning classes and in