Deseret Evening News | 1910-06-10 | Page 4 | Ministers' Salaries

MINISTERS Springfield Republican Salaries of ot clergymen 63 a 1 year In the United States so read mods readI a I Washington dispatch lately cent nt out over the country giving a a small sum um summary mary mar of ot the result of the census token ten In 1069 and now about to be published It I cannot be bl to tu convey n 1 listed accurate Impression lon With JI the th exception tion of or tho Methodist and Baptist bod bodies bodleR ies leR the larger Ilger and bet best known de denominations denominations nominations how average ministerial salaries much above the given average avern e ere The re Unitarian averages nV aB Pro Protestant Episcopal 1242 general convention of the New Jerusalem Pres Presbyterian Prel 1177 11 Reformed church United Presbyterian Con Congregational and Reformed Pre Pres Presbyterian 1003 08 Quite often tn In addition to 10 tho th salaries ns n In the tha census the clergyman I provided with housing and nd funeral fees fe and Ind the like Ik provide some ome ad additional ld Foure at revenue often oUen con can Probably It cannot ba be main maintained on the basis b l of at the tho aboe aver avor averages ages I fl that clergymen nr greatly greatY un underpaid as compared with the aver averages ages obtained 1 In other professions When It COne comes to t tho Methodist Pro Protestant Prote te lant body by for example which shows show an nn average below bolo wen even the low for all ILI denomination below 1633 33 a year It must lupI be said that complaint of underpay seems tr to be b well grounded even Ien after taking Into consideration con such uch from free rent Ind fees as n have been heen noted