The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-02-08
1NELL-PAID PASTORS.
farge Salaries of Prominent New
York Clergymen.
The Financial Status of Their
Various Parishes.

mt Episcopal Church, New York city.
IN embraces old Trinity, at the head of
Wal. street, and eigit parish chapels-
Isl. Paurs, St. Johns, Trinity chapel,
Isl. Augustine's, St. Cornclius's, Zion
Church, Zion Chapel, and Trinity
Church, MOrr:sania. To support these
churches there are ample funds. The
income of the corporation is between
Is75O 900 and $500, coo a year. Yet
this amount docs not adequately repre-
sent tac corporations capital. A large
portion OF its lands were leased long ago,
when property was not as valuable as at
p-eseat. The leases were to run ninety
nine years. When they expire the in.
come of the Trinity corporation will be
double what it is now.
Dr.. Morgan Dix is the rector of old
Trinity, and exercises general supervi-
sion over the parish chapeIs. His salary
| is SIS, coo per annum. The assistant
rector of the same church receives $4,000,
while the assistants who have charge of
the chapcis receive $4,000 a year each,
excepting DR.. Swope of Trinity Chapel,
who gets $4,000.
These are pretty high salaries. but
the Ep;scopalians of New York are
renowned for generosity toward their
pastors. The last rector of s.. Thomas
was paid $4,000. DR.. Brown. who
fills the pulpit at present, gets SIS, 900.
DR.. Huntington of Grace Church, which
Vice President Morton attends when
living in the city, has, perhaps, the
most desirable parish of all. His salary
is SIS, 600, and he occupies beautiful
parsonage, rent free, next to his church,
which is INTELLECTUALLY one of the
handsOmest residences in the city, and
lis certainly worth an extra 5000 ayear
to the pastor. Another church that
pays $40, 900 to its rector is St. Bar.
tholomcws. Dr.. Greer is the fortunate
clergyman. He possesses private means,
and returns his entire salary to his
church.
DR.. Rainsford of st. Georges receives
$50, 600 year. He also is possessed
|of private fortune, and, like the rec
tor OF St. Bartholomew's, turns his
|:alary over to his church. There are at
least dozen other Episcopal parishes in
the metropolis which pay their rectors
tala,ies ranging from $4,000 to $4,000.
rer annum. The bishop of the diocese
Of New York is paid SIS, 900.
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 in the city or the
secretary of one of the many branches
Of church work. or, FOR that matter, q
\ Bishop. The Bishop of New York re-
seives 5000. All the other Bishops
receive $500 annually. excepting the
Bishops of Africa and India. who are
paid 5000 and $500 respectively.
The agents of the Book Concern get
5000. The same sum is given 20 the
various secretaries. The pastor of St.
paurs on Fourth avenue, the largest
Methodist church in the city, gets
$1,000 and large parsonage COM
.ortab.y furnished to live in rem. free.
All the Methodist churches furnish their
pastors with resi- lences. The Maids on
Avenue Church also pays its pastor
5000.
The Presbyterian pulpi. in New York
IS filed by some of the ablest preachers
IN America. Dr.. John Hall OF the
Fifth avenue church draws a salary of
&O, 900. DR.. Paxton is said to receive
$40, 600, DR.. Parkhurst, $4,000, aud
d.. C. c. Thompson, $4,000. while I.
De Witt Talmage of the Brooklyn TabcT-
aacle, whose influence is as great in
New York as it is in Brooklyn, is paid
81, 000. Apart from what they re-
ceivc from their Pensioners, Dr.. John
Ia.l makes a handsome sum each year
o7 Writing for the New York Ledger,
aad DR.. Talmage is Paid a salary fox