The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-23
Working for Hire.

Under the above caption we last week
published some reflections concerning the
shire" Of Temperance and religious evan
gelists, and said-sswhen we see the labor
er in the moral vineyard placing his hire
at sum as great as SIS to sl25 a week,
We are apt to conclude that the shire" is
the incentive to labor more than the good
Of souls or the benefit conferred upon hui
manity." This speculation has found a
veri6cation in New York, where Francis
Murphy, the temperance evangelist, seems
to have had all his interest conferred in his
salary.
We have the highest regard for temper
ance aud religious workers of every de-
nomination, and wherever found, where
benefit to mankind is the incentive, and
we have the profoundest contempt for all
those who make it business speculation
or are seeking worldly applause. That
there are such, the annexed extract from
the New York Sun Of Monday clearly
shows, and with Murphy may be classed
Cough and number of self-constituted
preachers, whose cash receipts are heavy
and acts of charity few. Large bank ae-
counts, handsome churches, paid choirs,
fine residences, stylish clothes, sumptuous
fare, and elegant equipages to take them
to and from their churches, are their por-
ton. These things considered, their ut
terances on the stage and in the pulpit
concerning sssssen man, and their appeals
to those in ease and comfort to help the
poor, are but mockeries. 1t is time that
the career of these hypOcrites should come
to an end. Whenever they begin to be-
come solicitous about their shire" it
would be well for those who have engaged
them to assist them in reforming society
to pause and consider their sincerity.
They should be paid, and be well paid,
but when they ask from $50 to 5000 per
night, the conclusion necessarily forces it
self upon us that money is the incentive
to labor.
There are many good, piOus and God
fearing preachers and temperance laborers
who take little or no concern about their
worldly possessions, and dedicate them
selves for the love of man to the reforma-
ton of society. These good men get mere
pittances-not as much as they should
get-yet practice what they counsel 9TH
ers to do. They go into the highways
and byways and seek out fallen men and
women and lead them to the paths of rec
titude, and out of their scanty means al
ways manage to help the deserving poor.
Here is the extract from the Sun:
president Mundy, Of the American Tenn
perance Union, occupied the rostrum in Clar-
endon Hall yesterday afternoon for the pur-
pose Of making public the action of Francis
Murphy in connection with the Temperance
Union. Six or eight months ago, he said,
the Union proposed to invite Mr.. Murphy to
this city. Mr.. Mundy had heard that MUIR
ply was mereenary man and disposed to
look after the dollars, but he was willing to
give him the benefit of the doubt He went
TO Washington to see Mr.. Murphy. On be-
ing asked if he would speak in New York ci-
ty, Mr.. Murphy said: sIet the ministers of
New York invite me and / will come. +"
while l was there" Mr.. Mundy said, "a
poor man who had been converted came up
TO Murphy aud asked him if he could get him
= coat, and Murphy said sob, if you're a ser
want of Christ, why Christ will give you a
coat" Mr.. Mundy returned to New York,
went to DR.. Taylor and other clergymen and
asked them to invite Murphy, but none of
them wished to have anything to do with him.
| Finally, through the influence of the mem
bers OF the Union, some clergymen's sigma
lures were obtained, and the difficulty was
overcome. Mr.. Murphy came to the Cooper
Institute and spoke. After the meeting arose
discussion of the financial question, and
Murphy said that Cough received $500 per
night, and he did not see why he should not
get as much, and that he had the right 20
make as much money as possible. At that
time letter in the Sun said that Murphy S
terms were $50 per night, with board in the
best hotel. VIM. E. Dodge and Mr.. Stern
would not countenance Murphy. While in
Washington, DR.. Newman told Mr.. Mnndy
that Murphy had been invited to stay in the
Doctors house, but he insisted On having
rooms and board at the best hotel. He in
sisted also upon taking the entire collections,
and the Young Mems Christian Association
had to pay all the debts. At the Round Lake
temperance gathering $500 were collected
for the purpose of paying the expenses of
the delegates, but instead of paying their
travelling expenses, Murphy kept the amount
collected. He did the same thing at Pitts
burgh.