The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-02-23


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THE OLD MINISTER NEGLECTED
AND REJECTED.
The BAzoo is in receipt of the fol-
lowing communication:
A lawyer or physician. if faithful
and luxurious, may reasonably expect
10 secure comfortable home and in
his old age be in receipt OF his lary-
est income. The minister may be
just as sure, that however faithful and
laborious he may be, his income will
decrease with his coming years, and
when he is old all income will cease.
AT the age when experience in law or
medicine becomes the chief capital in
a paying practice. The minister is not
only uadeIired and unsought, but he
is actually crowded aside that his
place and work may be given t. 9th
ers who are utterly without either
training or experience. He il una
bic to go into business from lack Of
capital. He is untitled by his minis.
teritl habits to take up another pro-
lesion. lie is physically I'M
able to learn trade or
work at it if he had one. The church
which he has made rich turns him
adrlit to support himself as best he
may with the aid of a beggarly pit
t,nce doled out as gratuiiy. The
gift is slowed with such ffensive
parade that nothing but absolute need
will drive him 10 accept it. Method
Ism does better by her veteran minis
tiers than any other protestant church
in this country, but she comes far
short Of either her ability or duty.
She contributed Just dime to each
member and probati"ner in 1890.
Three annual conferences gave %
cents or over per capita; Four, from
~ to 70 cents; twenty-three, over 10
and under 20 cents; twenty-four, over
, and under 10 cents; twenty five, l
to D cents; sixteen, less than l cent.
oO6 churches gave 90 esch; i01
churches, "a; oil churches, 90; 16I
churches, 81; S73 churches. 81; l.
9l9 churches, So; 5,277 churches,
gave 1854. or less than 81 from
each church.
In the state Of Missouri there are
two white Methodist Episcopal annual
In these conferences,
AZ ,S77 Methodists contributed in 1891
for the support of veteran ministers,
So, O32 or little over 8 cents each.
They contributed to church benevo-
lences s2S,512. Twenty-eight
veteran ministers received 81, 5a4 or
s9l teach; twenty eigh widows re-
ceived 81, 1853 or sS1 each. Had these
fifty-six Claimants been dependent
upon the the contributions of the peo-
pie. 50. O32 they would have received
s54 each. The rest was provided by
The dividends of the Methodist Book
81 .7l2, and other funds.
Txenty.tour churches with 2,799
members and probationers, s49.S25
worth of property, paying s7,S7l
salary, contributing 1887 to church
benevolences, gave so to the
veterans. Ninety-foar churches
With 1880 members and
probationers, 1925. Az worth Of
paying SAT ,233 salary, con-
.ributing 1854 TO church benevo-
ences, gave 1926 to the veterans.
One hundred and eighteen churches
with IL ,62s members and probation
RS, s375,272 worth of property, pay
ng $50 l54 salary, contributing So
al to church benevo.ence, gave 1926
% the veterans or a little over So
rom each church. Had the pastors
secured for the veterans but one per
cent Of their own salaries. the amount
-aised would have been nearly
doubled. This terrible exhibit re-
7eals the greatest weakness in Meth
,dist polity. There can be but one
,emedy toI this evil. Let each pas
or do as be will wish TO be done by
when he is veteran.
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