Evening journal., 1910-08-31
S7O,OOO,OOO PAID
TO The MINISTERS
Census Report Gives Interest
Ing Figures Relative to
Church and Salaries
LARGEST OFFER OF
$4,000 REFUSED

bulletin just issued by the gov
ernment gives facts never before col
lated about Christian ministers IN
American cities, their number and
salaries, and about the mortgage
debts of churches. The figures arc
for 1906. but have just been made
public.
There were l64,s30 Christian min
listers and 1854 Jewish rabbis IN the
United States In 1906. and they in
crease at the rate Of nearly 1000
year. Their average salary Is 1868,
and there was paid to them in 1906
d total Of S69,667.5S7. Baptists and
Methodists have more than half the
whole number Of ministers in the
country. due TO their large number
Of small churches, especially IN
rural districts
The highest salary ever offered a
minister 10 preach in New York was
/ $4,000 a year and house offered
last year by the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terian Church, Marihattan-and de-
clinedl Several ministers receive
! $4,000 year. and there are dozen
/ VT HloIt Wno &tl n14sNNu.
These salaries are the highest in
the world. London and Berlin aver
ages are hardly more than $4,000 a
year. That Is. London minister who
gets $4,000 Is near the top. These
salaries are highest in the world. A
minister in London who gets $4,000
is near the top. in New York he is
near the bottom.
Tho pAuarnpnqnf Qhaul fHp aNfruNr
salaries of ministers in cities having
100000 population and over to be.
Baptist, S1,793; Congregational,
81 ,9SS; Methodist, S1,642; Presbyter-
ian, S2,450; Protestant Episcopal
$1,S7S; Reformed. S1,93S; Roman
Catholic, S6S4. and Jews, si,4a1.
In the smaller cities and rural dis
tricts. minister's salaries run away
down. Baptists in the South average
S334, and colored Baptists in the
South SEPT on the other hand. bodies
that are strongest IN the cities. like
Unitarian. the Protestant Episcopal
and the Roman Catholic the averages
stay about the same.
For example, Unitarians receive
the highest average salaries OF all,
their figures being 81 ,65S. The Prot
estant Episcopal ranges down from
S1.s73 10 s1,5i7. the Roman Catholic
does not fall off at all. the rural dis
tricts ranging higher than the aver
age. at s724.
In actual money. Methodist minis
ters get most OF all. their salaries
amounting annually TO Sl6,160,uhe
Baptists receive $40 1923, 600 Prcsby
terians s7.610,000. Roman Catholic
s6,779,000. Episcopalians s4,esI,oo'
Congrogationalists, S4l54.00o. R'
formed 81 16s2.000 and Jews $s0l .Oo
\ II is estimated on the basis OF thei
reports that In 1910, SlO0,0OO,ONo WI
be paid IN salaries, and that conEr
ii pational expenses, missions and exte
ID tions will involve S200,00O,0 ,0O0 more
Y. The go,Vrnment finds the value
10 church property in New YORK 70
.s Sl53, ,g53,740. This does not inclu
N parsonages. or hospitals. or asylum
but only hurches-buildings used 7
public. religious worship. II finds Y
debts upon all OF them to be Sl9,Obl
419 or about 1913 per cent ln ne
n York city the proportion OF debts
valuation OF prope ties on whis
o mortenge debts rest is very muc
: higher among Roman Catholics an
4 Jews than among Protestants.
Before discounting any paper, th
: Bank Of England requires at least ivy
good British names. one Of whic
must be the acceptor II seldoi