Bishops and Clergy have to deal with all sorts of communications from
parishioners. I remember one case where a clergyman received a letter
telling him he would never do for St. Phillip's because he was
altogether too quiet in his preaching, and not half sensational
enough, but that if he would preach in a red coat in the morning, and
with no coat at all at night, he would be just the man for the job. As
to the Bishops, they have so much to do that one of them--Bishop
Magee, of Peterborough, I believe--summed up the situation by saying
that people seemed to have an idea that a Bishop had nothing to do but
sit in his library with the windows open, so that every jackass might
put in his head and bray.
_Church Luncheon, Newport,
May 16th, 1900._