Show MINISTERS M COST LESS THAN AUTOS world survey figures fig tires reveal how badly united stat states es Is paying PaYin gIts its pastors pastora MANY LIVE ON A YEAR one of the alms of present P protestant ro cooperation co operation Is to end disgrace of underpaid preacher pensions also to be provided what are tile chances of a young man who intends to be a lawyer of 0 making a year what me ate the doctors cannee what of the minister or the manufacturer the lawyer has exactly one chance I 1 in five ahe lie doctors chances lances are one I 1 in sevens seven it 11 is ten to one against the manufacturer rn anu fact aurer the modern minister however mho iio formerly ranked with the doctor and lawyer lawner as it a member of the learned professions has fallen hopelessly behind lie ile Is a to 1 allot these figures are part of a mass of astonishing facts brought to light by the world survey being made by the interchurch world movement and whose sources of information are such that hat many economists and statisticians are availing themselves of the results this survey puts americas in minister inister at the bottom of the ladder of the nations income re coheir is and with responsibly responsibilities I 1 ties which equal thoe of any captain of industry not four ministers in a thousand according to the survey receive 5 a year in no instance whatever the denomination dues does a majority receive 1000 cotton pickers better off are you a congregationalist in 2783 churches the eerily pay to your ministers lias has been less than 1 1000 are you a presbyterian you are then on the loss less than 1000 list with ministers in III the event that you are it methodist the charge is i that pastors are trying to exist on the 20 it a week that you pay them episco do a little better ye yet t halt half of their rectors receive less than the 1 I 1 a year which government economists regard as the minimum on oil which a family can be decently maintained the initial cost of the cheapest flivver on the market Is less than but a very good conscientious pastor it Is shown can be hired tor for a year for that sum ministers I 1 in the south are preaching to fifty or more cotton pickers who individually are paid more for picking cotton than their entire neighborhood pays to the preacher in a year one of the aims of tile present cooperation ciper atlon of the worlds denominations is to end tills this dagrace ds grace ot of the underpaid minister with houses and municipalities dally daily taking action to provide for the comfort of their workers tile chur churches clitis tri to keep keeli puce pace math tile times and to arrange not anly for adequate pay for its woi kers but to in provide pensions for no longer able to work |