The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-15
MINISTER'S AND MONEY.
Salaries and Opportunities of New
York Clergyme
From the Epoch

York Clergy men.
From the Epoch.
A few facts and figures will give an idea
of the opportunities that New York holds
out to brainy men who have chosen the
ministry as profession.
The wealthiest single church organiza-
ton on this side of the Atlantic is the
Trinity corporation of the Protestant Epis-
copal church. 1t embraces Old Trinity, at
the head of Wall street, and eight parish
chapels-St. Paurs, st. Johns, Trinity
chapel, st. Augustine's, st. Cornelius, Zion
church, Zion chapel, and Trinity church,
Morrisania. To support these churches there
are ample funds. The income of the corpo-
ration is between $750,000 and $500, 900 a
year. Yet this amount does not adequately
represent the corporations capital. A
large portion of its lands were leased long
ago, when property was not as valuable as
at present The leases were to run ninety
nine years. When they expire the income
of the Trinity corporation will be double
what it is now.
DR.. Morgan Dix is the rector of old
Trinity, and exercises general supervision
over the parish chapels. His salary is SIS,
600 per aunum. The assistant rector of the
same church receives Sc, 600, while the as
sistants who have charge of the chapels re-
ceive $4,000 year each, excepting Dr.
Swope of the Trinity chapel, who gets
SS,00o
These are pretty high salaries, but the
Episcopalians of New York are renowned
for genero,ity toward their pastors. The
last rector of St. Thomas's was paid $751;
000 DR.. Brown, who fills the pulpit at
present, gets $4,000. DR.. Huntington of
Grace church, which Vice-Preside1t Nor
ton attends when living in the city, has,
perhaps, the most desirable parish of all.
His salary is $4,000, and he occupies a
beautiful parsonage, rent free, next to his
church, which is INTELLECTUALLY one of the
handsomest residences in the city, and is
certainly worth an extra $1,000 year to
the pastor. Another church that pays 49,,
900 to its rector is st. Bartholomew. DR..
Greer is the fortunate clergyman. He pos
sesses private means, and returns his entire
salary to his church.
DIR. Rainsford of st. Georges receives
$4,000 year. He also is possessed of a
private fortune, and, like the rector of
st. Bartholomew, turns his salary over to
his church. There are at least dozen other
Episcopal parishes in the metropolis which
pay their rectors salaries ranging from
81, 900 to SS, 900 per annum. The Bishop of
the diocese Of New York is paid $4,000.
In the Methodist episcopal churches
large salaries are not the general rule, but
the ambitious minister can aspire to be-
come one OF the agents of the Book concern
established here or the secretary OF one Of
the many branchesso church work, or, for
that matter, a bishop. The bishop Of New
York receives SIS, 900. All the other bishops
receive $4,000 annually, excepting the
bishops OF Africa and India, VINO are paid
81, 900 and So, 500 respectively. The agents
of the Book concern get $4,000 The same
sum is given to the various secretaries. The
pastor of st. Paul's on Fourth avenue, the
largest Methodist in the city, gets $1,000
and a large parsonage comfortably fur
nisned to live in rent free. All the Methodist
churches furnish their pastors with resi-
dences The Madison avenue church also
pays its pastor $4,000.
The Presbyterian pulpit in New York Is
filed by some of the ablest preachers in
America. DR.. John Hall of the Fifth
Avenue church draws salary OF 2O,0OO.
Dr. Paxton is said to receive $1,000. DR..
Parkhurst 5000. and DIR. q. Z. thompson
IS, 5000, while Z. De Witt Talmage of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, whose influence is as
great in New York as it is in Brooklyn, is
paid $4,000. Apart from what they re-
ceive from their parishioners, DR.. John
Hall makes handsome sum each year by
writing for the Ne,O York Ledger, and DR..
Talmage is paid a salary for editing Frdn6
LesLie's Sunday Magazine.
The Rev. Robert Collyer OF the r TX
Avenue Unitarian church receives SlO,UOO
DIR. William u. Taylor of the Broadway
Tabernacle, Congregational organization,
is supposed to have like salary.
But, putting all monetary considerations
aside, the reputation a clergyman of talent
is certain to achieve in New York and the
opportunities for doing efficient work for
the cause OF religion and humanity are so
many that most clergymen regard it as a
very desirable field OF activity.