El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-04-24
EPIsCOPAL church experts

~ PISCOPAL church experts. with
bishop Lawrence Of Massachusetts
as sponsor. claim they have a
pension system for ministers on a sci
entifio basis j. Pierpont Morgan has
accepted the treasurershfp Of a pension
system Of that church. and the expert
OF that system has Just attacked open
II the college professor pension sys-
TEN Of the Carnegie foundation. saying
it cannot carry out its promises.
The Episcopal church pension fund
supplanted a scheme TO raise $4,000. 600
by gift, started In 1901, and failing,
with a plan by which Episcopal minis
tiers paw in definite sums and receive
like definite ones at specific ages. IL
is claimed that the best known experts
In America worked upon and perfect
ed the plan. Methodists. Baptists and
some other bodies are at work at this
time raising money for relief. along
lines formerly followed by all One
aim Of the new fund is TO make Il pos
sible for ministers. finding themselves
misfits. to resign and have money TO
live on Now they keep rectorships
from necessity
The Carnegie foundation. whose pen
sion system is now attacked by Mcneil
Sayre, the Episcopal expert IS that
which has so often been attacked on
other grounds by church bodies for its
alleged influence against Christian in
stitutions. Vanderbilt university at
Nashville was claimed to have been lost
to Methodists through the indirect in
fluence OF the foundation, that founda-
ton having specified that IL would pen
sion no professors OF colleges controlled
by religious bodies Church officials
are just now tremendously alive TO
proper pension systems for ministers
TELLS NEW YORK PASTORS
THEY ARE NARROW MINDED
Efforts making in New York to get
up a religious revival without Billy"
Sunday. because Sunday cannot now as
sign a date struck an ecclesiastical snag
within the first month A Baptist mni-
lister, Rev DR.. Chas- A. Eaton. once
ROckefeller's pastor in Cleveland, in
vited Protestant ministers Of all names
20 a union communion service Some
expressed establishment at such step by
a Baptist. Lutheran and Episcopal
ministers disapprOYed and remained
away. The Eaton deacons objected,
and the communion service was not
held The Protestant ministers OF New
York. engaged in a revival propaganda.
could not agree among themselves SUI
TO make possible FOR all TO sit
together at their common Lords table
Then Rev. Dr. William P Merrill. OF
the Brick Presbyterian church. told
other New York ministers that there
were mighty few OF them. even those
before him. who would give up con-
i've churches in order that they might
bring in the man from the street. He
told them. and nobody differed, that
there is a vast number OF Christians
outside Of the churches. caring for
Christ but not for them, and that Il is
far more important that ministers get
the point OF view and conform to the
man in the street, than that such man
be induced TO accept and conform to
the way and viii OF the ministers
Episcopal laymen in New York ara
leading. and have been Joined by some
others. in a movement TO arouse New {
York, not by a revival OF the old pat I
tern. but BY setting tasks OF personal I
work before men: a working revival 4
rather than a Billy Sunday one. 1t ]
Is admitted on all sides that New York 4
g at the moment more stirred on relig- /
Gus responsibility than it has been in 4
70 years at least