Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-04-26 | Page 4 | Superannuated Preachers

SUPERANNUATED PREACHERS. Nothing, not even death itself, is so much dreaded by a Methodist preacher preach-er as superannuation. It means cessation ces-sation of pngtoral work. It means that ' he is no longer acceptablo as a preach- -' er. j It means that he must go out, often ' without a home or means of support, into poverty and old age. The largest allowance paid to a superannuate from what Is known as tho ''conference collection" col-lection" is not half the average sal-nry sal-nry of the active pastor. And the pastor pas-tor who can save anything out of his salary for old age is more fortunate than most of us have been. Tho oxpcrlence Is the testing timo in a .Methodist preacher's life. He haa nothing before him hut years of growing grow-ing woaknoss and Infirmity, nothing In the past but memories of activity, tho very recalling of which grlovcs his soul, because ho can be active no more, and even tho lovn of hi broth- ron Is too often of the pitying sort that only addB to his sense of loneliness Happy, indeed, is he whose faith does not fail during these twilight years. The Independent.