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Show cn:tnrr for his iiard lot, discovered that, 1 he w;i:.s the street cleaner received were ik-.'i rJ y double his own salary. And it 'oi's. In .ranees of the wr t'-h'-d pay doled out to ministers mig-ht be given in ondk-si multiple, but wn believe the truth of the situation i.s Hurficinntly well known to warrant the omission of f urther dM ails. The ministers are men, and their families an? women and children, and they all h a v n to cat and t h e y all h avc to be ebrthed. Thene things are facts, albeit ' !u y Keeni to have been overlooked iu the world's hustle and scramble in attempting at-tempting to make both ends meet. It is no (flowing commendation for the people who comprise the congregations that , their spiritual advisers are, in many I instances, actually in want. THE PASTOR'S PAY. Ministers of tho Gospel naturally are ho Inst to complain. They shoulder their burdens and those of the.ir flocks without: murmur. Somehow, they are supposed to do this. Just why this supposition sup-position should exist is not quite clear; but, nevertheless, it is a widely prevailing- opinion that the minister, be-intj be-intj a man of God. needs lit t lo or nothing noth-ing that the earth lias to give. Things have coiuo to such a pass, howewr, that the last straw lias been udded to the lie;ip on the pastor's back. He cannot icnduro much longer tlie high cost of living and the low i'ost of his services. The Kev. F. L. Gratiot, writing in the Chicago Tribune, Trib-une, suggests that a ministerial ' trades union ' ' may yet have to bo organized. Whimsically, he asks his readers to imagine their favorite pastor removing his pince nez next Sunday (. morning and, after announcing tho . . ' hymn, making this statement: ' ' As j Yiereuir-y of Ministers' union, Xo. 24, . I regret to announce that after next Sunday there will be no services, owing to the choristers' strike.' Among other possibilities, even more direful, the young and happy couple may be met at the parsonage door with this greeting: "I am sorry, but I cannot can-not perform your marriage ceremony tonight; the clergymen are striking in sympathy with the organists, who walked out last week." Tho serious side of t ho situation, however, is a serious side, indeed. Tho .New York Methodist Christian Advocate Advo-cate says that during the, period in which living costs have increased more than SO per cent clergymen's salaries have increased less than lo per cent. The Standard, a Baptist publication of Chicago, gives ''some problems in arithmetic'' as they were presented to a preacher's wife. She found that supporting sup-porting a family of seven on a salary of $:M a week, paid ' by tits and starts,'' is a condition which baffles solution. It became even more com-'. com-'. pWx when a tenth of this sum is pledged back to the church, while several other ' tenths 4iaro pried loose for some church work.' iter pitiful experience in one stressful period 'S given in her own cords: ''For six w..vks one summer ve did Ti"t have enough to buy a 'ostage stump. The children could not avc so much as an ice cream cone a lo-eent ride to the woods.' I T he commission on finance of the i : d liodist church lias mad? a survev i twing the average saiarv of pastors, i liuding house rent, to be 11.11. The I : host a v crag1 cash salaries are those ! ;he Pittsburg ronferenee, .1427; the '''i-t those of the colored conference, l jlj'l- pasirr (if a large Presbyterian i i i jh iu Chicago, -who had served his ljj-.-gaf inn faithfully for lif teen I while sympathising with a street |