Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
rWELL-PAID PASTORS.
: Large Salaries of Prominent New
York Clergymen.
The Financial Status of Their
e& Various Parishes.

embraces ola TRINITY, at the head of
wal street. and Gig 1T parish c'iapcls-
o. Paurs. St. Johns, Trinity chapel,
st. Augus'incs, st. Cornolius's, Zion
Church, zoa Chapo'. and Trinity
CHURCH Morrisania. To support these
churches there arc ample funls. The
income of the corporation IS between
$3.50, 600 and $500, 0O0. ycar. Yet
his amount docs not adcqu tc,y repre-
sent the corporations cip:tal. A large
portion of lis lands were leased longAgo,
when property was not as v,u,blc rs at
prc;cut. Tho leases were to ran ninety.
lninc years. When they expire the in
come of the Trinity corporation will be
double what it is now.
d.: Morgan Dix is the rector of old
Trinity, and exercises a general supcrvi.
'sion over the parish chapcs. His salary
lis SIS, 600 per annum. Tic assistant
rector Of the same church receives $4,000.
while the assistants who have charge of
the chapc!s receive $1,000 year each.
excepting DR.. Swopc of Trinity Chapel,
who gets $4,000.
These arc pretty high salaries, but
'thSsSEpiscopalians of Now York are
,rcno@pcd for generosity toward their
pastors. The last rector of s.. Thomas
was paid $4,000. Dl. Brown, who
fills the pulpit ut present. gets SIS, 900.
DIR. Huntington of Grace Church, which
Vice President Morton attends when
living in the city, has, perhaps, the
most desirable parish of all. H.ssalari
is SIS, 600, and he occupies beautiful
pars onagc, rent free, next to his cLu c',,
which il architc cturalls one of the
handsomcst rcsid eaces in the city, urd
is certainly worth an extra $5OJOaycar
TO the pastor. Another Church that
pays $40. 600 to its rector is S.. Bar.
tholomcw's. DR.. Greer is the fortunate
clergyman. lie possesses private means,
and returns his entire salary to his
church.
DR.. Rainsford of St. George receives
$50, 600 n year. He also is possessed
of private fortune, and, like the rec
tor of st. Barth olomcw's, turn, hi,
: salary over to his church. There arc at
least dozen other Episcopal parishes in
the metropolis which pay their rcctors
salaries ranging from $4,000 to $4,000.
per annum. The bishop OF the diocese
of New York is paid SIS. 600.
In tho Methodist Episcopal churches
lars. ssa9ar.es arc not the gcno:al rule,
sbut th9 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, II
Bishop. The Bi-hop OF New York re-
ceives 5000. All the other Bishop,
receive $500 annually. excepting the
Bishops of Africl and India. VIII are
pail $1,000 and $3.50 res pcctivcly.
The agent, of the Book Concern get
$500. The same sum is given to the
various secretaries. Tho pastor of S..
Paul S on Fourth avenue. the largest
Methodist church in the city, gets
$4,000 and large parsonag, c,m-
fortably furnished to live in rent free.
ALI the Methodist churches furnish their
pastors with resi- fences The Maids on
Avenue Church also pays its paitor
$4,000.
The Presbyterian pulpit in New York
is filled by some of the ablest preachers
in America. Dr.. John Hall of the
Fifth avenue church draws salary Of
$2o. 600. DR.. Paxton is s,il to receive
$40, 900, DR.. Parkhurst. $4,000, and
DIR. G. G. Thompson, 5000, while T.
DE- Witt Talmage of the Brooklyn Tabcr-
naclc, whose influence is MS great in
New York as it is in Brooklyn is paid
$4,000. Apart from what theJ re-
ceiye from their parisaioncrs, DR.. John
HalEl1nhkcs handsome sum each year
by w2Hlng for tho New York Ledger,
and n q Talmagc is paid salary for
editing Frank Leslie Sunday Maya.
zine.
The Rev. Robert Colycr of the p ARK
Avenue Unitarian Church receives $40,
600. DR.. VIM. N. Taylor of the
Broadway Tabernacle, Cong EDUCATIONAL
organization, is suppo ied to have like
salary.
But, putting all monetary considera-
tions aside, tho 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 very desirable
field of activity. -New York Epoch.