Show MINISTERS AND MONEY clergymen engage o i it p. p business ss 5 ventures 9 Is it Jeg-Hi Jeg legitimate mate mute for him to put hilt savings into spec I o investments iU 1 Questions ue hk lik these are arc being much discussed following following fol lowin lowing the tile confession of tho the Rev He HeDI Dr li Newell Dwight ht Hillis of Brooklyn BrooklynN N Nr Y yo regarding ng hit his financial m tun tunics tunes es For most ministers this qUe 5 question ti n never arises Too many clergymen nn nd n I receive c scarcely the tIne pa pay of a skilled skille d mechanic They aro arc required to l livin liv c cin e in a n select elect residential district mus must t ha have havo a home suited to entertain th the e Ladies Ladies' Aid Ail society they must Avear wea r good clothes Pell Perhaps aps imprudently the minister has raised a family an and d ma may mav rashly think of educating hi hichi his s chi children dren After fter all such bills are paid the field of business venture looks r a as s instant a as 11 Mars a 15 In towns of some wealth however there is a minority of ministers wh who o Ire are somewhat fortunate in a mone money y Thc They accumulate small way AA may say sa ins itus W What lat cnn can and should hould they do h o with Avith them 7 The world never casts the out-the business business busi busi- for taking It flier ness man a n for though it is poor j judgment it is no not nob t contrary to the moral code But someI somehow some some- somehow how would not one feel just a bit disillusioned disillusioned disillusioned dis dis- I were he to hear his pastor pasto r earnestly discussing the tho question n whether Steel Common were no not ny nt t selling elling too low or if good money mone y could not HOt be lie made in buying certain certai n real estateS estate Is this a false or true truc e I instinct 7 1 This at least can be said It takes a n lo lou pull puI at the speculative speculate game to know it its tricks and its manners I All AIl clergymen and teachers should the limitations of the tine ld iT linn ion nr na i- i h o V 4 U 11 or a bear The world expects a clergyman to stand for spiritual feeling A man must stand a little apart to see through h the mists of life The struggle string string- struggle gb gle f for 1 dollars is too absorbing It grips the mind and obscures tho the deeper deep deep- er insights It ma may not be he wrong but it does Toes not help a clergyman to see seethe the farther horizons Without that gift his work misses its full mis mission ion I f i I t |