The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-13

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comes about.
The Gilded Road % Grace.
Some one of the ANAL papers has been giving
the world valuable information Is to the sala-
ries of the metropolitan clergymen. From this
authority we learn that Henry Ward Beecher
has Q yearly salary of $4,000 and parsonage
rent free, and that, with his literary earnings,
his income is $4,000. E. H. Chaplin has S., 900
per annum, and makes as much more by lee
turing. DR.. Bethune has $4,000, but is the
posseseor of fortune outside of his professional
earnings DR.. Adams, says our authority. has
S., 900 and rich wife, DR.. Hawks has $4,000
q year and house. DR.. Taylor, of Grace
church, has $40 900 and the fine parsonage ada
cent to the church. Rev. Messrs Tying, Bellows
Osgood, Cheever, and other leading clergymen,
receive from $4,000 to $4,000 per annum. In
many cases the salary only represents small
part of the pastors earnings. If he is young
and bachelor, the young ladies vie with each
other in furnishing him with the thousand and
one ct ceteras which 60 to make up gentle
mans toilet. He has slippers, and caps, and
watch cases, and suspenders and surplices, and
all sorts of traps, without number. He may
select the "richest of his fair patrons for his
rib," and receive round dowry from her dis
bursting agent at sight. His new household is
adorned with contributions of useful and orna-
mental articles-the gifts Of his practitioners,
who hepe to find short cut to heaven by q
heavy fee to its elected representative. In the
summer months the fashionable congregation
suspends the task Of worshipping God in town,
in order to adore Satan and all his works at the
watering places. The clergyman bolts off to his
country seat and gives himself up to the sports
Of the season. What becomes of the poor sim
ners who cannot afford to 60 out Of town we
cannot say nor do we suppose their spiritual
pastors and masters have much care about it.
If we compare the rewards given to the
clergy with the salaries of other professional
men, or men pursuing occupations which give
them position before the public, we shall find
that the ministry offers them more sure COM
petence than any other calling. Leading coun-
eel at the bar may make fortunes; but how few
are really "leading' among the army of law
yers? The larger number are briefess young
men, who get nothing. Again, there are hard
working attorneys who may make two thou
sand a year, and have the hardest work to COL
lect it. The same remarks will apply to the
literary and medical professions. No one seems
to relish paying an EDITORS, booksellers, doc
tors or lawyers bill; but money comes down
upon the head of the parson in a Daneian
shower.
Next to the popular clergyman the popular
player is the greatest pet of the public. Per-
haps in the golden hour Of his early triumphs
he may receive for the time being more money
than the preacher. But let premature old age
come upon the actor, and those who petted and
dined and wined him yesterday will kick him
into the gutter tomorrow. With the young
ladies he stands next to the parson. But the
divinities of the greenroom are not in that
high state of drill and discipline that dis
tinguish the divinities Of the vestry. Satan
is always at work in the coulisses, making some
kind of q riot more or less public, according to
the prominence or obecurity Of the sinners.
Beecher and most of the tip-top clergymen
generally manage to keep the old fellow out by
making their churches close borough, and
watching, like prudent gamekeepers, over their
aocks, male and female. Sometimes, however,
the sentinel on Zion's watchtower slumbers, as in
the recent case of the Brooklyn widow and the
demoiselle who had two intrigues during the re-
vival. So the Devil slips in; then he is only ex-
PEELED by hard praying and harder swearing,
according to all accounts. We must do the
clergy the justice to cay that they watch their
lambs we'll. Some uncharitable people say that
they do 20 from interested motives; but in this
wicked world no one can escape calumny.
The parson has the further advantage over the
player, the lawyer or the doctor in the perma-
hence of his employment. The broken advo-
cate, the ruined actor, or the physician or edi-
tor who does not keep up with the times, are
quickly thrown overheard; but let your "divine"
be ever go much Of an old fogy-let him shuttle
over his prayers and cough out his sermon-he
is still continued In Office with an assistant. The
ladies pet him more than ever-their dear sym.
pathetic souls clesving to the holy man more
and more, as his indrmities grow apace. Monks,
ministers and pastors have been the especial
favorites of thefair in all times and we cannot
expect to be wiser than our grandmothers.
1t is this fine position Of the pet clergyman
that calls many young man of good parts to
a sense of awakening grace. He Is born TO evil
as the sparks fly upward; but Satan does not
pay 60 we'll, and therefore he enlists on the
other side. Players, too, see before them a field
of clover when q crisis has reduced them to
short commons and religion hits them on the
head with the force of sixty-four pound shot
But these converted actors" are not public
pets They ore generally strollers or walking
gentlemen. Nobody ever heard of frst-rate
opera singer being brought to q sense of his
awful condition until after he had lost his voice.
We are forced to the conclusion that Mammon-
the god that regulates this metropolis crept
into the ranks of the unco pious themselves,