The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1889-12-03
FASHIONABLE CLERG YMEN.
Some Of Them Pay their Salaries
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The wealthiest single church organiza-
tion on this side Of the iilantic is the
Trinity corporation of the Protestant -Epis-
copal church. Ii Embrace Old Trinity nj
the head of Wall street aud eight parish
chapels-St. Paul's st. John's, Trinity
chapel, st. Aupustine's, ST. Cornelius Zion
church. Zion chapel and Trinity church,
Morrisania. To support these churches
there are ample funds. The income of the
corporation is between $4,000 and $4,000
"A year. Yet this amount does not ade-
quately represent the corporations capital.
A large portion of its lands were leased long
ago when property wns not as valuable as
mt present. I lie leases were for ninety-nine
years. When they expire the income Of the
Trinity corporation will be double what II
is now.
DIR. Morgan Dix is the rector Of Old
Trinity, and exercises a general supervision
over the parish chapels. His salary il Sl5,-
0O0 per annum. The assistant rector OF tho
same church receives 5000 while the as
sistants who have charge of the chapels re-
| ceive 81 900 year each, excepting DR.
| Swope of Trinity chapel, who gets Ss,UOO.
These are pretty high salaries, but the
| Episcopalians of New York are renowned
for generosity toward their pastors. The
| last rector of ST. Thomas's was paid $4,000.
DR.. Brown who fills the pulpit at present
gets $1,000. DIR. Huntington of Grace
church, which Vice President Morton at
/ tends when living in the city, has perhaps
| the most desirable parish Of all. His salary
il $1,000, and he occupies n beautiful par
sonage rent free next to his church. which
| il architeeturally one of the handsomest
residences in the city and liz certainly worth
/ an extra 5000 a year To the pastor. An
other church that pays $1,000 90 its rector
il st. Bartholomews. DIR. Greer is the for
tunate clergyman. He possesses private
means, and returns his entire salary to his
church.
DR.. Rainsford, of st. Georges. receives
| $4,000 year, He is also possessed OF
private fortune. and, like the rector Of ST..
Bartholomew's, turns his salary over to his
| church. There are No least dozen other
Episcopal parishes in the metropolis which
| pay their rectOra salaries ranging from Si,-
600 TO $S,0OOper annum. The bishop of the
diocese Of New York il paid $1,000.
In the Methodist Episcopal churches
large salaries are not the general rule; but
the ambitious minister can aspire 10 be-
come one of the agents of the book concern
Notte'AfnnNA h'tff VI AhA n'AAthehN " Nu' VI
the many branches of church work, or for
that matter bishop. The bishop of New
York receives $1,000. All the other bishops
receive $500 Annually, excepting the bish-
ops Of Africa ard India, who are paid $4,000
and $500 respectively. The agents of the
book concern get 5000. The same sum is
given 10 the various secretaries. The pastor
OF st. Pauls on Fourth avenue the largest
Methodist church in the city. gets S50OO0nd
a large parsonage comfortably furnished
to live in, rent free. All the Methodist
churches furnish their pastors with resi-
dences. The Madison avenue church also
pays it, pastor $1,000
The Presbyterian pulpit in New York il
filed by some of the ablost preachers In
America. DIR. John Hall, Of the Fifth ave
nue. church, draws salary of $4,000. Dr.
Paxton il said 20 receive $1,000 DIR. Park
hurst, 5000, and DR.. G. G.. Thompson,
$500, while 7. Dewitt Talmage, of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle. whose influence IL as
great IN New York M 1t is in Brooklyn, is
paid Sl2,OOO. Apart from what they receive
from their parishoners, DIR. John Hall
makes o handsome sum each year by writing
for the New York Ledger and DIR. Tnlmnge
is paid handsome salary for editing Frank
Leslie's Sunday Magazine.
Rev. Robert Collyer, of the Park avenue
Unitarian church, receives $4,000, DIR.
William N. Taylor, of the Broadway Tab
ernacle. a congregational organization, is
supposed to have like salary.-Epoch.