Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-03-01 | Page 6 | Pay Less for 1923

CHERS' CHERS PAY I lOWS LESS odist st Church Spends jarge a ge Amount in inI B. B Pensions I I. AG AGO March IThe Meth Methodist a i church palo pala a as u 8 or pensions to its 2436 re- re 39 1 widows and cording to a ree re- re e e today by bv Dr Joseph B. B corresponding mg secretary of ot Id I'd Jf t conference claimants p B. r C.-r B. B Mitchell St St. St Paul presided ded and nd members of ot the theL vere jre L prese present t from all over the st States i s. s ells ells' an increase crease o of pen- pen over 1922 said sad Dr Hingeley t paid as pensions a and net for necessitous Although there was ase to the pensioners tho the claims of the pen- pen 1 iwas which left a el eare are marked inequalities of slon sion system stem In the Methodist al allchurch l church which should be dJ d. dt Some pensioners in were paid per in other conferences for L ars of or service the pen- pen received rec ed 1 1200 00 or more nore as pen- pen R FUND NEEDED ing pleaded for tor a larger lent fund stating staling that the the pension payment crease year rear by year rear because in- in were n iber r. r of pensioners reach year reported that the av- av ilary of ot preachers in 1022 1922 was It was 1398 1396 progress of the pension fund since 1906 has hM and increasing The for preachers' preachers pen- pen church 1906 to Ihas has increased since to Of Dt tt 81 altamount mount distributed b by theas the theS as S in m 1923 from ministers them- them The he num number er of retired minis minis- 3 each year and un un- church makes some adequate endowment the average will decrease alarmingly present decade 1901 have haxe been distributed claimants as pensions tan an half that amount has been ted ed in the last seven years ears 11 t. t no nOn Protestant churches have now tents lents amounting to fund Is constant- constant asing said eald Dr Hingeley who tary of the lon ion lon board bOard of the Protestant 3 I I endowment funds in the thea va- va churches said Dr yf are Baptist Northern JOO 00 Southern Connal Con- Con nal nai 75 Disciples I Lutheran ih Ins ina Missouri synod JO Norwegian United Canada Canada- 2500 tho Episcopal 1st Episcopal South erlah Northern n United cd ed church In n United States lin America Dutch Brethren Evanston treasur- treasur in ethe treasurers treasurer's report was suggested a new plan was adopted Wh whereby reby minis minis- their savings into a fund will assure them annuity and andon on In old age p Thomas Nicholson Chicago it 3 J. J Wade Chicago corre- corre g of the committee and advance of the Episcopal church were