The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-19
CHANCE FOR PREACHERS.
European Tours Made Possible by the
Late War

Late War.
An unexpected result of the recent war
affects the preachers of the United States.
1t is desire felt by congregations in Eng
land and Scotland and to some extent
Canada, and by the English-speaking con-
tngents in Rome, Paris and Berlin TO hear
American preachers in their pulpits. Let
ters are coming from England to clergy
men in this country asking when the re-
cipients expect to visit England, or when
any of their ministerial friends expect to
cross the ocean A broker in ministerial
supplies has even set up in business in
London with the express purpose of Sc
curing American clergymen to fill English
and Scotch pulpits. This broker is now
sending to clergymen on this side of the
Atlantic letters asking about their vaca-
ton plans next summer. In a burst OF
confidence the information is given that q
man need not have a national reputation
in America in order to get into the best
pulpits in England just now; almost any
thing is in demand that bears the Amer
lean label. A New York preacher who
held one of these Invitations in his hand
as he spoke. said the other day to a
New York Sun reporter:
'What a Guer war that was! VINO
would have thought that our controversy
with Spain would have made it possible
1Or american HlllliSttlS " l6ht' thdl lo"i
abroad, to the Holy Land as well, per
haps, and pay the entire way of them
selves and their families by supplying
pulpts in England and on the continent?
ODD. isn't it? But it can be done.
1.-THE Protestant clergyman who does
not go abroad now, or at least next sum-
mer does not deserve a second opportun-
ity. There is one thing, however that
our ministers ought to know since there
seems to be chance for them to turn
British friendlness to account ! have
had experience, for / have preached in
big London pulpts. and also in provincial
ones. 1t is all right for your vanity to be
able to say that you preached in Christ
church, Westminster Bridge road, or Re-
gent Square Presbyterian church, but if
you want to extend your trip to the Holy
Land and do not care about impressng
your congregation at home, select the
provincial pulpits. They pay more. The
church / have named pay only G3 Sun
day-$l5 for two sermons! Think of it!
You see they take advantage of their own
prominence. 1t is as if Plymouth or the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian, or the Broad
way Tabernacle, instead of paying of pay
ing a fair price say $500 a Sunday for a
supply, should pay only SIS, because it is
worth while to the Western clergyman to
say he has occupied these New York pull
pits. I call that trafticking in their own
social power.
at is quite possible. say in all serious
ness, for the American minister, even if
| he be not known beyond the limits of his
own synod. to go abroad next summer and
pay all his expenses. or nearly all of
them. The demand, strange as it may
seem. is enormous / am besought in al
directions. not always to come myself
but sometimes to give information of 9TH
| ers who are to visit England. The old
order of things is reversed. repeat. what
| an odd war it was. and what strange re.
suits came from it,