Show pREACHING FOR MONEY A Methodist minister who has been engaged in rounding up the lost sheep of Chicago has resigned his pastorate and engaged in the work of selling au an automobiles Evidently he was mistaken about abo t his call to preach the gospel in inthe Inthe Inthe the first place The Rev Ferdinand S Rockwell has been med Into F S Rockwell sales agent His reason for making the change Is given as fol follows follows followS lows Preaching th gospel does not pay pa I Iam Iam Iam am given 2500 a year by bv b the church I cannot support my family in the style It deserves to live on that amount To TogIe give gIe my children the education I think they should ha hav and nd my wife the op opportunity opportunity she desires in her line of ot work I need a year rear I cannot get It In Inthe Inthe inthe the church I am going where I can Usually men who enter the ministry are not suspected of being mercenary but this is a commercial age and the get money idea seems to have in invaded Invaded invaded some sanctuaries Very few voices are now being lifted up in the wilderness lS comparatively speaking Yet after all the in the pul pulpit pulpit pulpit pit are greatly outnumbered by those who preach for the purpose e of saving souls and not for what money mane there here is in it |