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Show U Rewards: Earthly and Heavenly Appealing for help in the want ad columns of a church Turner a western pastor describes his condition: Debt S2!00. Only G resident members; no wealth; college col-lege town - salary $900. Debt, 1919, was $10,500. Help me! Seventv-five dollars a month salary! And for this the jrood pastor is supposed to lead rt respectable, moral life. His wife must be decently dressed. He must live in a presentable home. We don't know how he is supposed to do it; perhaps his conjeretfittion thinks he is a miracle man. This shepherd's condition is not unusual; pastors are traditionally poor as church mice. But they are expected, not only to be models for their communities, but downright inspiring into the bargain. How any husband can be inspiring inspir-ing on $7") a month is past our comprehension. Hut, while pastors are being half-starved, numbers of rich men contribute millions to various leagues and societies for the reform of America. Many of these millions are wasted in futile "surveys" and "campaigns" and in the swollen salaries salar-ies of a horde of "executive secretaries" and the like. If the church was a militant, well-financed affair, staffed ly adequately-paid pastors, there would be need for few of these reform organizations. .' if 'l Maybe $75 a month pastors will get their reward in heaven but that is no reason for starving them to death on earth. I |