Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-01-10
WELL-PAID PASTORS.
Large 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.
1t embraces old Trinity, at the head of
Wall street, and eight parish chapels-
s.. Pauls, st. Johns, Trinity chapel,
St. Augustines, 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
$3.50, 900 and $500, 600 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
como 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 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 chapels receive $4,000 year each,
excepting DIR. 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, 600.
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
par5 onage, rent free, next to his church,
which. is archltecturally one of the
handsomest resid ences in the city, and
is certainly worth an extra $4,000 ayear
to the pastor. Another church that
pays $40. 600 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. Georges receives
$40, 900 year. He also is possessed
of private fortune, and, like the rec
tor of St. Barth olomew's, turns his
salary over to his church. There are at
least dozen other Episcopal parishes in
the metropolis which pay their rectors
salaries ranging from $4,000 to $4,000.
per 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 NATTER a
Bishop. The Bishop of New York re-
ceivcs 5000. All the other Bishops
receive $4,000 annually, excepting the
Bishops of Africa and India, who are
paid $4,000 and $500 res pectively.
The agents of the Book Concern get
5000. The same sum is given to the
various secretaries. The pastor of St.
Paul on Fourth avenue, the largest
Methodist church in the city, gets
$4,000 and a large parsonage COM
fortaby furnished to live in rent free.
All the Methodist churches furnish their
pastors with residences The Maids on
Avenue Church also pays its pas tor
$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
$20, 600. DR.. Paxton is said to receive
SO, 600, DIR. Parkhurst. $4,000, and
DIR. G. G. Thompson, $4,000, while 7.
D. Witt Talmage of the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle, whose influence is as great in
New York as it is in Brook lyn, is paid
$12, 600. Apart from what they re.
ceive from their parishioners, DR.. John
Hall makes handsome sum each year
by writing for the New York Ledger,
and DR.. Talmagc is paid salary for
editing Frank Leslie S Sunday Maga-
zine.
The Rev. Robert Collyer of the Park
Avenue Unitarian Church receives $40,
900. DR.. VIM. NJ. Taylor of the
Broadway Tabernacle, a Congregation
organization, is supposed to have like
salary.
But, putting all monetary considera-
tions aside. the reputation clergyman
of talent is certain to achieve in New
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