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Show MINISTERS COST LESS THAN AUTOS - World 3urvey Figures IUy1 How Bddly United-Stales Ib Paying; Its Pastors.;' (( ,,. MANY LIVE OK $600 .A YIAR. , ' t. v i v i Ont of tho Alms 'of Prnt PrU.tnt..- Cooporatlen Is to End DlHr" I ef Unr(d ProaohtK - ' !l' J Unt Alt to Provide. ' , I Whst ai-e tht fhnacc of a ynme nmti who Instills h h a Uwyr ot , insking S,o0 a yar J What are thn doctor's chnnco? Ft of t BilnU-ter BilnU-ter or the wsntirri Tb lawyor has exactly hc In fir. Tho ddi-tr'ti ohaneoa ar , In st. It 1 t ( no agahtit in fflanufaoturvr. 'fh odni tiilr, liontror, wan fomiorly raakod with tli defter aa4 lajryar la a Mfir of tha "UarMtd rofalaa," .haa AnHen hopolesily liaWrad. JM Is a 1H to 1 hot. Tlitxe flfurM art part f a mi t titnnUhlaf hcNi hrnflit H Ugh y Ilia wnrlri tarrcy hrlag and r Hi InUichnrfk WirM lfTitt aad nho ars of"' lafaraaHap -are itfh that winy ecnatmlata aa4 am-tlollcliiix am-tlollcliiix re araltlnc tiitlTM ef lb rnlli. Thhi aurvey pn'4 Aaiafl-ca's Aaiafl-ca's mlnliter at Urn bottom ot ttie i ladder of the nation' Inuoitie receivers re-ceivers and with relHillltles which equal those of any captain of Industry. Not four ministers In a thousand, according to the survey, receive $",-D00 $",-D00 your. In no Instance, whatever the denomination, does u majority receive re-ceive ?1,000. Cotton Pickers Betler'Off.' Are you u CouaregutloiiiiIlstT In 2,783 church"! the yearly PHVfto your ministers bus -beeij less (Mill '$1,000. Are you a Presbyterian? You me then uii the less than ?1 ,000 list with 0,115 ministers. lnMhe eve,l(rv1liii-Jou lire n Methodist tho charge latitat -1,710 pastors are tryliig Jo exist 'mi'the .$'JO a week that yoti 'ilay. theili. Eplsco-uillnns Eplsco-uillnns do a little better, yet halt of their rectors receive less than the $1,-oOO $1,-oOO it year which government economists econo-mists regard ns the minimum on which & faintly i-aii he decently maintained. j The Initio! cost of the cheapest "flivver" on the market Ik lest than i?(!00, hut u very good, conscientious pastor, it Is Miowii, can hi; hired for u year for that sum. j Ministers In the South are. preaching preach-ing to fifty or more cotton picker , who Individually are paid more for picking cotton than their entire neighborhood pays to tho preacher In' a year. One of the alius of tho presont cooperation co-operation of tho world's Protestant de- , nominations Is to end this disgrace of. the underpaid minister. With unlver- sis, business houses nnd iiiiinlclpiill- i tics dally taking action to provide for the comfort of their workers, the church Is to keep puce with the times, and to arrange not only for adequate (iny for It workers, but to provide pensions fur those no lunger able to work. |