14 JUNE 1946, Page 4

A "rather arresting—and rather disturbing—sentence from a recent University Sermon

at Cambridge by the Bishop of Liverpool: " In the thirteenth century there were about 57,000 clergy in this country ministering to a population of 3,000,000 people. Every fiftieth man in those days was in Holy Orders. Today the population is twenty times as great, and there are about the same number of clergy and ministers of all denominations. One in every thousandth man is a