The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-06-09
Money Loving Preachers.

So much disposed are men to charge min.
isters of the Gospel with loving money, thai
msos ms expenses, 10 nnU,mrr wrrn r,pmr,
salary, even it the field of usefulness il wider
Ministers themselves sometimes countenance
this mean spirit. We have now before IA a
pamphlet, published by layman, the title Of
which Is, IAN appeal to the Churches: or the
Cause and Cure of Remisness in the sumner,
of Pastors. BY hearer of the Word. =
Inc writer, man Of business, draws the fol.
lowing contrast between the ministry and
other avocations in the matter of pecuniarv
support. Tie states that, after a careful inves.
ugation, he has ascertained "tbat in every
cal ing IN life, where men are industrious and
"uSai' ne hnds them ascending from a com.
Petence to wealth. One Physician of his
acquaintance was in the habit Of booking
from nine to twelve thousand dollars per an.
mum! tie has since died, leaving his family
large estate, accumulated i'm some twenty
years! An enterprising young merchant.
VINO Is doing apparently not the largest husi.
ness resiized from one winters sales the
enormous sum OF nine thousand doIIars,-
Inc farming interest is i'm the same prosper.
GUS Col ditlon. The writer commenced liz,
win several friends and relations who arc
engage in this business. Within the nor;nJ
OF twenty or thirty-fve years. almos, ever
one q THESE men have accumulated Iarge
and furnishing estat g."
>, IN / OK at the othar side of the picture
He srys: elm the writer's whole exner;enco
ne nos never become quan,ed with q min.
iSter OF the Gospel who has made a fortune
oy preaching. Nor is this all. He recollerts
not one instance In which the clerical profes-
sion mas yielded what the men of the w,rI,
considered competence By competence
we mean sum sufficient for the support a.
family during the lifetime of its head. and
winch VIII also serene n widow and ornhaps
from want after the husband and father has
oeen removed. Every man may be said 10
DC morally bound to accumulate this much
io' the wants OF family. Probably there
Is no cruelty greater than that which leaves
oehCate female with a half dozen children
10 Quiet with the world without means. I,
Is SIN almost objectionable.
ne aodS' in the building where the writer
10 pehh'ng these lines, there are now present
t"iee MINISTERS oil the Gospel, who are mas.
'ots' One OF them has a city charge. the
o'ner TWO laoor In the country. Their ,o. |
ere9dte salaries amount to but twentv-o,o |
hunureu ooiia's, or seven hundred dollars
piece. Nor Is the state of tbi. lbs be,,o, -
other places, but rather worse. We van,,
IL affirm that If the entire salaries of .Ii ~
pastors in our country were equally distribn-
ted, each man would not receiy more than
three hundred dollars" '"'"
And we may add TO this testimony Our own
observation. Our acquaintance with minis
lers is extensive, and we know not one. in
city Or country, whose salary would enable
HIN, In an ordinary life, to make comfortable
provision tor old age, or for his wife and chill.
iren IN case OF his death. Nor do we re.
member to have met with a solitary excep-
non 10 this general statement. On the con.
.rary' we know those who have labored har,.
or years in the ministry, and have supported
-heir families in considerable part by teach
ng and other labor.
Cur u susles cure for il, so long
rs Inc love of money SO generally prevails N
ian Of the West.