Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-06-28
What the UNCONVENTIONAL Journal
DIACuSS In their Columns.

DiACuSS In their Columns.
Bishop Huntington, of the Diocese of Central
men to do missionary duty for salary of $3.50
year and board. The advertisement said: s'They
must be well educated, sound In mind and body
men of good practical sense and possession
OF these qualifications must be sufficiently GER
titled to-" In several quarters he was criticised
no young man OF culture and education ought
to be asked to work for such slender pay But
the Bishop takes the remarks OF his critics In
for imagining that out of hundred who have
fOrSworn the world for the kingdom of heaven.
and who preach sermons and sing hymns about
about cross bearers and marching soldiers and
a suffering sainthood and the glories OF self
remuneration, there may possibly be five, only
nVe, VINO would not count very aOstemiOus
ministry In one OF our middle states intolerable
or the of1er OF 1t either an affront or a Joke
He adds: "The day of great sacrifices and
great honors, young man, are gone by, Chris
tan heroism Is out OF fashion. After you have
I reel. a. your Pearson and Hooker take down
discuss with your companions the comparative
salaries, the social efinementS, snug rectories.
ana S other material advantages II you hear OF
laugh at him. Make early arrangements for
matrtmony and settling down. Resent any
expectation that you are to be more sparinv Of
yoursen than the children OF the world whom
you are going to convert; and preach the cruel
nct1on OF eighteen centuries ago." There are
two sides to this question. The salary named is
very small, but the young man who takes it
goes, as 1t Were "tO learn the business" II he
succeeds, 1t is feather In his cap for a call to
some other field Of labor II he is to fall he had
better fail In an humble field OF this description
than In gigantic city church. And then, per-
maps, there are among the great host OF theolo-
glcal graduates some for whom $50 and board
Is very fair compensation. There are mer-
chants who do large business and incur
heaVy responsibilities whose net profits at the
close OF years work are not more than $3.50
and board. 1t Is true that such men have gene
rally labored with view to getting more than
this, but their efforts have not been crowned
with success. The over supply OF ministers is
80 great in nearly all the denominations that
many good men are clamoring for work at ex-
ceedingly small figures. We notice In a re-
ng1ous paper OF this week an advertisement to
the eflect that "a Presbyterian minister, of
good abilities and in good standing, would be
giad to minister to church, or to supply q
church for q time, where the compensation
would be sufficient for the daily wants of q
family. An opportunity for labor and bare
support are all that are wanted" Further
more, we believe that. distasteful as it may
seem to work for such poor pay, II respectable
country church were to advertise for pastor
at $50 and board 1t would have several dozen
applicants. Meanwhile ''btg gun" is supply
Ing the pulpit OF one OF the fashionable churches
In Brooklyn at seventy live dollars q Sunday
sc. o. D." How the hundred and fifty dollar
brethren must wish they had his post for just
two Sundays! -