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94 inducing graduates to continue their study under a well-qualified principal. At the same time, complaints are sometimes heard from the clergy that it is difficult to get curates to serve in some of the overgrown parishes. My fear is that the supply of clergy cannot honestly be said to be keeping pace with the vast increase of population—at all events, in South Lancashire. There are, of course, a certain number of ordinary lay-readers connected with parishes in Manchester; but there is also a body of candidates for the ministry who undertake to work under parish priests and to attend lectures at the Scholæ Episcopi, established by the present Bishop for the purpose of preparing for Holy Orders those who have not been to the University, but who are under regular tuition by the tutors. The Dean and Canon Kelly are Principal and Vice-Principal respectively. This movement has been, and continues to be, successful. I think it might be added that in Church matters much assistance of a voluntary character is given by Churchmen, and the Voluntary Parochial Councils which focus such help are steadily on the increase.”

In touching on other phases of the work in this modern Diocese, Dean Maclure spoke of a vigorous branch of the C.E.T.S. and of Manchester as one of the great centres of temperance work and organisation; of the work of the C.A., and of the Church Lads' Brigade (of which the