The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-06
Monday, April LIST, 1867.

Committee on Missions and Sup
plies made report. which created
quite an interesting discussion ) the
substance of the report was that
ministers were without congregations,
and 'congregatierls without ministers.
Rev, j. Nicely. argued that the church
has done wrong in giving authority to
men to preach who were not well edu-
Gated, and were. not capable Of in
teresting an audience He favored
sending ministers only to congrega
tons, where, a definite bargain was
made with regard to the pay. .a. 2e5la
Rev. T., 49, Mcclure made some
amusing remarks about Ministers
being paid with quilts, &c. "a 49,. -,
Rev. j. G. Bowdon made very for
chile speech in favor Of giving Minis
tiers a definite salary He said
: When 1 buy beef the price is def
mite, Is cents a pound-terriJly def
mite; when / buy boots or a coat the.
price is definite. When men preach
they use their brains and should be
paid definite price for it." He ar
gued that allowing Ministers to work
for an. indefinite salary was sapping
the very foundation of the Church.
! Rev. sThos Walker was willing to
preach without definite salary, and
was willing to draw on his resources
for part of his support, but was op-
posed to the practice becoming gen
eral.
Rev. j. Nicely spoke in favor of con-
gregationS stipulating with their pas
tor for his services at fixed price.
Rev. !. s. Mcclure, a young minis
ter without congregation, spoke
feelingly on the subject of young min
listers seeking employment In secular
pursuits, whose whole hearts were in
the work Of the gospel ministry, but
who could not get money enough for
their services to make them a scanty
support. Rey.J. Nicely gave the Off
cial members Of the Church some
hard rubs concerning their negligence
IN making up the pay of their minis
tiers. i--lst1
An old gray-headed lay-member,
Mr.. Dugan. spoke in defense of the
official members of the Church. He
thought the official members not al
together to blame. Go We into all
the world, and preach my gospel,
meant something, and his opin-
ion was that it was the
duty of ministers to seek employment
in their appropriate work. He said if
he were going to employ mechanic,
he would require that mechanic to-
bring some evidence that he was a
good workman before he gave him
employment. gHesconceived it to be
the duty OF, ministers to give evidence
OF their ability to interest an audience
before that audience was justified in
promising to pay that minister. The
disapproved of licensing
ministers to preach before they were
thoroughly trained. Recess was taken
At 3 o'clock PM, the Presbytery
came to order, and business was re-
sumed. The vote taken on Saturday
fixing the time and place of holding
the next Presbytery was reconsidered,
and the Tuesday before the second
Sabbath in September was agreed
upon.
Rev. Thomas Walker offered reso-
luton instructing the delegates to. the
General Assembly to use all means in
their power to have definite express
sion from the Assembly whether or
not the delinquencies of 1864 and 1865
were repealed. Rev. j. C. Bowdon
spoke against the resolution. He
did not wish to 60 Memphis tied up
and bound by instructions; he wish
ed to go there free, to use his own
judgment in all matter that might
arise in that body. He was OPPOSED
to agitating the question at all, but the
resolution before the House compel
led him to be an agitator, and that too
against his better judgment. The
speaker manifested considerable feel |