| Show MINISTERS AND MONET salaries and opportunities for new tori clergymen epoch A few facts and figures will give an idea of the opportunities that new york holds out to brainy men who have chosen the ministry as a profession the wealthiest single church organization on this side of the atlantic ia the trinity corporation of the protestant episcopal church it embraces old trinity at the bead of wall street aud eight parish chapels st pauls st johns trinity chapel st augustinas Augu stines st zion church zion chape and trinity church mor roeania rie ania to support these churches there are ample funds the income of the corporation is between and a year yet this amount does not adequately represent the corporations capital A large portion of its lands were leased long ago when property was not as valuable as at present the leases were to run ninety nine years when they expired the income of the trinity corporation will be double what it is now dr morgan dix is the rector of old trinity and a general supervision over the pariah chapels his salary is per annum the assistant rector of the bame church receives while the assistants who have charge of the chapels receive a year each excepting dr swope of trinity chapel who gets aliese are pretty high salaries but the episcopalians Episcopal ians of new york are renowned for generosity toward their pastors the last rector of st thomass was paid dr drown who fills the pulpit at present gets dr hunt lugton of grace church which president morton attends when living in the city has perhaps the most desirable parish of all his salary is and he occupies a beautiful parsonage acut tree next to his church which is architecturally one of the hand residences in the city and is certainly worth an extra a year to the pastor another church that pays to tor esst Bartholo mews degreer Dr Greer is the fortunate poss esses private means and turns salary over to his church dr rainsford of st ci orges re ceilea a year lie is also of a private fortune and like the rector Bartholo mews turns bis salary over to his church there are at least a dozen other episcopal parishes in the which pay their rectors salaries ranging from to per annum the the diocese of new york is paid in the methodist episcopal churches large salaries are not the general lule but the ambitious minister can aspire to become one of the agents of the book concern established here or the secretary of one of the many branches of church work or for that matter a bishop the bishop of new york receives all the other bishops receive annuala annu all y excepting the of africa and india who are paid and respectively the agents of the book concern get the same sum is given the various sec reta rieB the pastor of st pauls on fourth avenue the largest methodist church in the city gets and a large parsonage comfortably fort ably furnished to live in bert free all the methodist churches furnish their pastors with residences the madison avenue church also pays ita pastor the presbyterian pulpit in new york is filled by bome ot the ablest preachers in america dr john hall of the fifth avenue church draws a calary of dr paston is said to receive dr parkhurst and dr C C thompson while T de witt talmage of the brooklyn tabernacle whose influence ia as great in new york as it ia in brooklyn is paid apart from what they receive from their parishioner dr john biall makes a handsome sum each year by writing tor the new york ledger and dr talmage is paid a salary for editing frank sunday SIa ganne the rev robert collyer of the park avenue unitarian church receives dr william M broadway tabernacle a congregational organization ia supposed to have a like salary but putting all monetary considerations side rations aside the reputation a clergyman of talent is certain to achieve in new york and the opportunities port unities for doing work for the cause of religion and humanity are BO many that most clergymen regard it an a very dar field of activity |
