Show PENSIONS FOR AM action at it a convention in hi a churetta chu setta dloie Dlo ee aft it Is a blot on the church that better provision la Is not made for su peran dilated ministers the church offers little inducement for a man to enter the ministerial profession axce excepting what reward he be may expect in the hereafter it ought not to bo be so it soldiers eold lers and public officials are to be pensioned these men certainly ought to be cared tor for as aa long as aa they survia D and and their last days should be pl pleasant pleaman easan est esi ot of fill all it to la true that some ot the larger denominations have established a fund f un a lor for this purpose but the amount allowed to the aged servants of mhd th church la Is in most moat cases so BO pitifully sm alland accompanied with such humiliating milia mil lating ting conditions that few care to become recipients of the bounty the amount allotted in the presbyterian Presby church for each ot of its aged and infirm ministers Is 30 per annum but oven even this allowed Is La only to those who can prove that they have UG no other means of support A movement has been started among the to creat a fund of or more a part of at it to be used in providing adequate support for or superannuates in that denomination gratifying action in this matter was taken at the recent annual convention of tho the massachusetts episcopal diocese a now new canon belne being adopted providing that any clergyman who has worked in the massachusetts diocese 25 years and shall have reached the age ot of 65 shall be entitled upon ex pressing a deslis desire to retire from active duties to an aa annual allowance of this Is a fair amount but not too much it Is accompanied with no conditions condl tlona which tend to impair the self celt respect ot 0 those who receive it the denominations generally micho well curtail the sums which they in vest in expensive edifices used only for or a few hmura each wee kand turn the amount anic thus saved toward the support of the faithful falth tul and deserving men mea who ho have given their lives to thil mhd up building vt of the church lesliea Le weekly |