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Show I THEBIRGYILLB BDGLB The Laoding Paper of tbe County Bright, flroexy, BeHlcoee, Butting aMk aw hmj mat tm aa 7 aatMrlaa koMT all Ik ar wnm ea7 MMitg aar. , Tfct atusMt xliwUitM awata & oa Ohwot. If nm Wlm la aawtulae mb at m m. rr (vOwr ttrtia all a tt adiaMw tat tailor. v . , The Rer. Samuel Moore, the beloved be-loved paster of our pingvflle churci, dropped into this office tother da and we had a heart to heart talk wkh him which movea US to write this editorial in his interest. as long as he lives and his funeral expenses after he is lead. Some of thenriembers of 'the Bingville emirch is tumble devoted to their religion. They go to church reglar every. Sunday morning .and set ia their favorite pews and go to sleep and after the service they shake hands with the paster and go back home feeling uplifted and better bet-ter and nobuller. i But they don't seem to remember remem-ber that a man who preaches the gospil has to live' oft the gospiL Salvashfon Is free but a preacher can't live on salvashion. He likes to have a mess of pork and beans and liver and onions and meat and potatoes once in a while just as well as anybody else. Don't the members mem-bers of the Bingville church think it's worth something to them to have their souls saved for them and to be prayed for like Rev. Moore prays for them? If Rev. Moore didn't pray for them who would? The Rev. Moore tells us confi-denchially confi-denchially that the members of the Bingville' church owes him in back salery the stupendous sum of' $850 dollars and no cents. Rev. Moore says he come to this pasturate several sev-eral years ago . from a country church over, in Pottowassie Co where he had preached unsuccessfully unsuccess-fully for many years without receiving re-ceiving any salery to speak of and that the understanding he ha'd with the congregashion here was that he was to receive $350 per annum as long as he remained the paster of the Bingville church. Rev. Moore says it was his belief that tbe Lord called him to this charge, but latterly he is inclined to the opinion that he didn't distinctly understand un-derstand what the Lord said when he called being as he might of rrris-onderstood rrris-onderstood him, the way things has turned out. There is some persons belongs to the Bingville church which any person would be almost ashamed to pray for. We are not ment-chionmg ment-chionmg any fames in this editorial, but unless the members of the Bingville Bing-ville church pays Rev. Moore sortie-thing sortie-thing on hit salery and pays it soon we will give some facts relative rela-tive to some of the leading tightwads tight-wads of the Bingville church which j they will have no hankering to see in print and which will be read by the readers of the Bugle with great interest It's a shame and a disgrace to Bingville to have its church members mem-bers try to kill their paster by slow starvashion. " f Subscribe for the Bugle and also pay , your preacher what you owe thim if you ever expect to get to heaven. It seems that during the first year of Rev. Moore's work the members of the church done handsome hand-some and paid him up in full the sum of $350 for the first 12 months, but since then all they have give him is donashion once in a while of things he can't use and old clothes from -time to time which is either too loose or ttjo- tight and makes him look ridiculus when he is in the pulpit It is a tumble hard thing for a preiher to look dignified in a pulpit in a pair of somebody else's pants that is too short for him at both ends and too tight in the middle. It was a tumble surprise to us to learn that the members of the Bineville church owes their paster the munificent sum of $850. It is also simply ridiculous and ought to be stopped. This sum is almost as much as we have charged up .on our books in back subscripshions against our deadbeet subscribers. When the members of the Bingville Bing-ville church paid Rev. Moore his salery for the first year of his pasturate, pas-turate, did they think they hadpaid him enough to last him for the rest of his nacheral life? A dollar goes a great way with some people, but even a preacher can't stretch a J1-Jax J1-Jax out so that it will pay his debts |