DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-01-02
MINISTERS AND MONEY.
salaries and Opportunities of New Yorl
city Clergymen.

Salaries and Opportunities of New Yorh
City Clergymen.
"A lew facts and figures will gi,s an
iuea OF the opportunities that New York
holds out to brainy men who Lave chosen
The ministry as profession.
The wealthiest single church organ
lzauon on this side of the Atlantic r.
the Trinity corporation of the Protestant
Episcopal church. 1t embraces old
trinity at the head of Wall street, and
elght parish chapels-St. Pauls, st.
Johns, St. Augustines, st. Cornelius,
Zion Church, Zion Chapel and Trinity
Church, Morrisania. 70 support these
churches there are ample funds. The
income of the corporation is between
$3.50, 900 and SS00,000 year. Yet
this amount does not adequately repre-
sent 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
nlnety-nlne years. When they expire
the income of the Trinity corpora tion
Will be double what it is now.
Dr. Morgan Dix is the rector o.. old
trinity. and exercises general super
vision over the parish chapels. His
salary is $4,000 per annum. The as
slstant rector of the same church re-
ceives $4,000, while the assistants W ho
have charge of the chapels receive So
900 year each, excepting DR.. Swope of
Trinity Chapel, who gets $1,000.
These are pretty high salaries, but
the Episcopalians of New York are re-
nowned for generosity toward their
pastors. The last rector of st. Thomas
was paid $4,000. Dir. Brown, who fills
the pulpit at present, gets $4,000 DR..
Huntington of Grace Church, which
Vice-President Morton attends when liv-
ing in the city, has, perhaps, the most
desirable parish of all. His salary is
$4,000, and he occupies beautiful
parsonage, rent free, next to his church,
which is architecturally one Of Che
handsolnest residences in the city, and
is certainly worth an extra S., 600 year
to the pastor. Another church that pays
$40, 900 to its rector is st. Bartholomew
DR.. Greer is the fortunate clergyman.
He possesses private means. and returns
his entire salary to the church.
DIR. Rainsford, of ST. Georges, receives
$40, 600 a year. He also is possessed of
private fortune, and, like the rector of
St. Bartholomew's, turns his salary over
to his church. There are at least a
dozen other Episcopal parishes in the
metropolis which pay their reetofs Aala-
lies ranging from $1,000 to rs, 900 per
annuln. The Bishop of tie ttffofct'SssU 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
become one of the agents of the Book
Concern established here, or the secrc-
tary of one of the nrany branches of
church work. or, for that matter, Bish-
op. The Bishop of New York receives
IS, 600. All the other Bishops receive
81, 800 annually, excepting the Bishops
Of Africa and India, who are paid "a, 900
and $500 respectively. The agents of
the Book Concern get IS, 900. The same
sum is given TO the various secretaries. |
The pastor of st. Paul's on Fourth ave-
nue., the largest Methodist church in the |
,ity, gets $1,000 and a large parsonage |
furnished to live in rent |
free. All the Methodist churches fur
Madison Avenue Church also pays its
pastor S., 900.
The Presbyterian pulpit in New York
IS filled by some of the ablest preachers
II America. Dr. John Hall of the Fifth
Avenue Church draws a salary of $50
100. DR.. Paxton is said to receive $lO,-
700, DR.. Parkhurst, $4,000, and DR.. C. C.
Thompson, $4,000, while 7. De Witt
ralmage of the Brooklyn Tabernacle,
whose influence is as great in New York
rs it is in Brooklyn, is paid ST.,
Apart from what they receive from their
DR.. John Hall makes a
handsome sum each year by writing for
he New York Ledger, and DR.. Talmage
$ paid a salary for editing Frank Les
les Sunday Magazine.
Rev. Robert Collyer of the Park
Avenue Unitarian Church receives So
100. Dr. William NJ. Taylor of the
Broadway Tabernacle, a Congregational
organization, is supposed to have like
alary.
But putting all monetary considera-
ions aside, the reputation clergyman
# talent is certain to achieve in New
FORK and the opportunities for doing
,tticient work for the cause of religion
nd humanity are so many that most
lergymen regard it as very desirable
ield Of activity.-N. Y. Epoch.