| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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paying the State for his services; thus the young man would still remain in State employment, he would still continue to receive his pay from the National Treasury, and at the age of forty-five would be entitled to his pension like any other worker, and after that the congregation would not have to pay the State anything. `A third - and as it seems to me, the most respectable way - would be for the individual in question to act as minister or pastor or lecturer or whatever it was, to the congregation without seeking to get out of doing his share of the State service. The hours of obligatory work would be so short and the work so light that he would have abundance of leisure to prepare his orations without sponging on his co-religionists.' `'Ear, 'ear!' cried Harlow. `Of course,' added Barrington, `it would not only be congregations of Christians who could adopt any of these methods. It is possible |
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