Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-25
PROBLEM
 DISCUSSED BY MANY
 FAMED CHURCHMEN
Church Pension Congress Day Is Observed at San Francisco Fair; Transforming Retired Min iSterS Considered.

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 SAN FRANCISCO July 24. - The
 was Church Pension Congress day at
 the Exposition The meeting was held
 under the auspices of the Board of
 Conference Claimants of the Method
 ist Episcopal Church.
 Pensions for retired ministers and adequate care of the widows and de- pendent orphans of deceased preach
 CTS were discussed by representative leaders of the various churches. Eff
 ty million dollars for retired preach
 CTS is the slogan of the churches. The | Methodist, Presbterian and Episcopal
 churches will attempt to raise ten
 million dollars each. and the Baptist,
 Disciples, Congregational and other large denominations also are engaged | in raising pension funds
 Among the speakers on the program were the Rev William Hiram Foulkes. D. D., general secretary of the Presby- terian Ministerial and Sustentation
 Fund, Philadelphia, Pa; Bishop VII liam Ford Nicols, D. D., Episcopal Bishop of California. or his official rep lreseatative: Bishrop Edwin Holt Hughes of the Methodist Episcopal church of San Francisco; Bishop Ed win Holt of Portland, Ore; Dr. F. r. Keeney First Church, Syracuse. N. r.; Editor F. M Larkin. California Christian Advocate; Dr. J. W. Van Cleye, Decatur, nl vice president of the Board of Claimants of the Me. thodist Episcopal Church: Dr. F. c. Clemans Minneapolis; Dr. J. B. Hinge ley, Chicago, secfetary Board of Con ference Claimants; Rev. John T. Brad. ner Smith, Editor of the Veteran Preacher Chicago, Ill.,, and represent- atiycs of the Baptist, Congregational. Disciples and other churches Ex. cepts from the addresses of some of the speakers follow
 Rev John T. Bradner Smith. Chi cago, said:
 Statistics reveal that there is more of the spiritof Christ and more prac- tical Christianity in the business world than n the Christian Church. The Church has long neglected not only the worn-out preachers, but the widows and dependent orphans of de- ceased preachers"
 Rev. William Hiram Foulkes. D. D. general secretary of the Board of Min isterial Relief and Sustentation of the Presbyterian Church. said
 'The Church does not need the ap. proyal of the world but it cannot af- ford to lose the respect of the world What do men like Henry Ford and many others think of the Church of Christ when the latter is staggered by ten million dollars for the minis, terial pension fund, when they them selves spell their obligations in terms of millions?"
 Chaplain E c. Clemans. Third Re eiment, NJ. N G.. Minneapolis,e Minn.. said:
 Thy are not worthy of a comfort able support. They plowed the fur TOW, sowed the seed and the Church is reapiue today the harvest. Parson- ages, churches, hospitals, colleges are the result of their labors. Material riches have been added to the church but best of an spiritual riches have been added. Their greatest work was in leading men and women and child ren to Christ Because they have led people to Christ shepardec iae living, comtorted the mourning buried the dead. helped the needy, they are wor- thy of Comfortable support.
 Rev J. W. Van Cleye, D D. Decatur, Ill., vice-president Boarc or Confer ence Claimants of the Methodist Epis- copal Cchurch, said
 "The support of the minister must be removed from the market basis to the basis of military service, in which the ideas of loyalty and sacrifice are more conspicious than those of em- lployment and wages. The minister should have a position of separateness and honor like that of an officer in ! the regular army"