Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1872-02-23
Pay Your Preacher.

port, from one of the leading and most popu
lar OF the American magazines 1t is noces.
sary for the religious press to bring this sub.
lect so frequently before tho Church, and the
|fige of its exhortations is 80 generally turned
the mere e.u .oSsicfo nature ascfibed to
Assh. tliats Hill with, picasdfe akts ffisnfIyi
sosce from tho ranks of tho popularlteratur
Of tho day, and ro.echo it for tho benefit of
spch OF our readers rs may not enjoy the
monthly visits of Scribncrs Magazine =
Southern Christian Adoocatc
Ii uian is fit to preach. he is worth wages
~ he 'ls worth wages, they should be paid with
all the business regularity that is denIandei
and enforced in business life There is no
| man IN the community who works harder for
tho money hc receives than the faithful min
lster There is no man-iu whose work the
community Is intcrestcd--to whom regular
wages, that shall not cost him thought, are
SO Important. OF what possible use in pu.
pit can any man ho whose weeks are frttcred
away in mean cares and dirty economies
Every month, or every quarter day, every pas
TOR should be sure that there viii be placed in
MS hands, us his just wages. money enough
to pay aIl his expenses. Then without
sense OF SPECIAL obligation to anybody, he can
Ipreach the truth with freedom, and prepare
for his public minissrations, without distrac.
ton. Nothing more cruel to pastor, or
more disastrous to lis work can be done than
to force upon him feeling of dependence up
on the charities of his flock The off ice of
such man docs not rise IN dignity above
that of a court-tonl. IIo il the creature of the
popular whim, aud u preacher without in.
flucnce to those who do not respect hin o,
h's Office sufficiently, to pay him the wages
due to man who devotes his lie to them.
hlnnllness cannot live in such man, ex.
crpt it DC in torture-a torture endured simply
because there are others who depend u pom the
charities duled out to him
Good. mnny pastors and preachers do not
want gifts T; they want wages. 1t is not a
kindness to eke out insufficient salaries by
donation parties, and by hcnctactions from
The richer members Of flock. 1t is not n
merit as they seem to regard it, for parishes
Sanind;vidnaiss.nsdosthis lis an /, acknowl.
edgement of Indebtedness which they are too
NE IN to pay in IL business WY. The pastor
needs it, aud they owe it. but they take to
themselves the credit of benef.c,ors, and
place him in wkward and f,lso position
f, The influence of this state of things upon the
world that lies outside of the sphere of Chris.
tinn belief and activity is bad beyond caIcula
tion. We have had enough of tho patronage
OF Christianity by halfs,ofng, half tolernt
ing world If Christians do not sufficiently
recngnizc the legitimacy of the pastors call
, ing to render him fully his just wages, and to
assist him to maintain his manly indepcn
dence before the world, they must not blame
the world for looking upon him with con
tempt that forbids approach and precludcs
influence The world will be quite ready to
take the pastor at the valuation of his friends
and the religion lie teaches, at the prcc it's
professors are willing to pay, III business way,
for its ministry.
LITTLE DELAWARE AT THE TnRoAT OF
MASSACHUSETTS,. In reply to some remarks
Of MIR. lioar, of Massachusetts, on the edu.
cational bill, Mr.. Biggs, of Delaware, oppos
cd the bill. He turned his attention to the
speech made by Mr.. Hoar some weeks ago.
10 which some illusions were madc to the dis
credit of Delaware, and said he would reud
the criminal statistics of the sanity State Of
Massachusetts,. He would read the crimes in
their alphabetical order They used up all
the letters OF the alphabet except the last
four. He found that in four years-l966,
1867, 1868 and lS60-thc number of crimin
al prosecutions in Massachusetts was 1O.O36
They had increased from 1915 in 1866 to
3,45S in 1869 And what were those crimes /?
Arson, adultery, burglary, bigamy, couspring
to dc(roud, drunkenness, defaciug tomb
stones forgery, horse stealing, highway, rob
berry, keeping hotel without license, night
walking obtaining money under false pre-.
lenses, perjury, pologamy. playing cards on
Sunday, a!tend;ng cock fights, refusing to
pay railroad taxes, selling liquor, selling Oh.
scence prints, selling Gseasci meat, threat
ening to burn churches When the honor.
able gentleman from Massachusetts talked
about the iliterncy of Delaware, he should
tell the House how Massachusetts, present
ed such black record of crime.
TIE GREAT WEsT -.Fcw people really
realize how many pcrcs are uuoccupied in the
great West There are eleven Territories
two or three of which are twice or three times
as large as all New England and it is a small
Territory. that is not at least ten times as large
as Massachusetts" Colorado Is thirtecn times
as large as Massachusetts,, while Dakota and
Arizona arc half rs largo again as Colorado
The eleven Territories contain over one billion
and quarter acres, exceeding by pcarly two
hundred thousand square miles tho aggregate
territory ofall' :he present admitted States of
the Union. Tine Territory of Alaska contains
800 ,539, 600 acres. a,saoo yabtt t ancH
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EW A young lady at n Western ten :
pcrance meeting said: "Brcthern and sis
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