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

the Trinity corporation OF the Protest
ant Episcopal Church, New York city.
It embraces old Trinity, at the head of
Vail street, and eigat parish chapels-
Isl. Paul's, ST. Johns, Trinity chapel,
St. Augustinc's, St. Cornelius's, Zion
Church, Zion Chapel, and Trinity
Church, MOrrisania. To support these
churches there are ample funds. The
income of the corporation is between
$50, 900 and $500, coo a 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 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, AMI exercises general supervi-
sion over the parish chapels. His salary
is SIS, 900 per annum. The assistant
rector of the same church receives $4,000,
while the assistants who have charge of
the chapc!s receive $4,000 a year each,
excepting DR.. Swope of Trinity Chapel,
who gets $4,000.
These are pretty high salaries, but
the Episcopalians 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, 900, and he occupies 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 ayear
to the pastor. Another church that
pays $40, 900 to its rector is St. Bar.
tholomew's. DR.. Greer is the fortunate
Clergyman. He possesses private means,
and returns his entire salary to his
church.
DR.. Rainsford of st. George receives
SO, 600 year. He also is possessed
of private fortune. and, like the rec
tor of ST. Barth olomew's, turns his
:alary over to his church. There are at
least dozen other Episcopal parishes in
the metropolis which pay their rectors
ralaries ranging from $1,000 to $4,000.
rer annum. TAe bishop Of the diocese
0! New York is paid SIS, 900.
In tie 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. a
Bishop. The Bishop of New York re-
ceives 5000. All the other Bishops
receive $500 annually, excepting the
Bishops of Africa and India. who arc
paid $1,000 and $500 respectively.
The agents Of the Book Concern get
5000. The same sum is given to the
various secretaries. Tn, pastor of St.
Paul on Fourth avenue. the largest
Methodist church in the city, gets
$4,000 and large parsonage COM
!ortab.y furnished to live in rent free.
All tao Methodist churches furnish their
pastors with residences. The Maids on
Avenue Church also pays its pastor
$4,000.
The Presbyterian pulpit in New York
is filed by some of tie ablest preachers
in America. DR.. John Hall of the
Fifth avenue church draws a salary oil
500, 600. DR.. Paxton is said to receive
SO, 900, Dr.. Parkhurst, $4,000, and
DR.. c. c. Thompson, $1,000, while I.
De Witt Talmagc of the Brooklyn Tabcr-
aacle, whose influence is as great IL
New York as it is in Brooklyn, is paid
$l2, o0). Apart from what they re-
ceivc from their par;shioners, d.. John
Hall makes handsome sum each year
by writing for the New York Ledger,