Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-10-26
Pensions For Those Who Save, Not For
Those Who kili.
Saws Dean shiler Mathews. }

SAYS bEdW SHIFT AdAutNcsf
~We used to pension only those who
Killed. now we are providing pensions
for those who save ether people, de-
clared Dean Shiler Mathews, of Chi
cage University. 20 several hundred
preachers OF different denominations
~ Hotel La Sale. Chicago.
Continuing Dean Shailer Mathews
said
Il want TO speak on a subject which
may or may not seem to be immediate
IN connected with the larger subject.
something which lies below the entire
matt r of the proper care Of the Minis
try. and that is The Respect for the
Viearious Life One great difficulty
with our religious life is that we have
not estimated our own services by the
proper standard. / have known some
/ churches that have thought themselves
to be big when they were simply drop
steal with statistics or sometimes wc
try to measure our successes by our
/ literary accomplishments. in getting
regulations as lecturers. or after-din-
ner speakers.
These are all reasonably respect
/ able. but the vicarious life is tho very
heart of our being. And because we
| have so measured our significance. he
Church and humanity at large have
come to regard the vicarious life as a
mbak life. The nearest approach to
! cynicism Jess eyos showed was n
his description of the benefacior. when
| he said The benefactor among the
/ heaten is the man who lords IL over
/ YOU The Church is not to De run or
| measured by standards of business. be
cause of the fundamental OCCUPATION
| business is to get, and that Of the
| Church is to give. and when you try to
| bring those things into con ,pncticn You
| arc organizing a sort of Joint stock
company called God. Mamrlon and Go.
"A young man was called 20 the pas
| torate Of church. The understanding
was that ne was to get $50 GA year, and
a discount of 90 per cent. at the depart
/ ment store II I were a Billy" Sun
daS / coll' fittnglv express n vselI on
| that kind of m arrangement. Thing Of
| Jesus going downtown and saying |
| want TO buy some fish, but ] must get
| 20 per cent OF / think this whole
/ movement Is to be interpreted rs some
/ thing more than an appeal of the min
! listers to the churches for pensions. or
! larger salaries. | belicv that while
1 in the nature Of the case the clergyman
/ must be the leaders in the undertaking.,
| the two things are clear and must be
/ observed. First. in the interest which
| the country at large is taking in the
| matter of providing for the nOnecO-
| nomic servants of the world such as
| minister's and teachers, as an indica-
tion Of the growing respect for the
spiritual or vicarious life, which these
| represent We used to pension those
who killed, now we are providing pen
sions for those who save other pee
| pie Second when we ministers and
| teachers talk about these great adj
! vances. let us do so with q sense of
| our own dignity, and we must say to
| the people of means DO you believe in
the fnality of the vicarious life, or are
YOU simply talking hot air when you
express your admiration for these
| thingsg If YOU honestly do, thcn make
| Notl sdNIlilCS d p"iI vi Ilcii Sd'i lh'oS'
| and contribute in material things u
| these who are doing so much for you
in spiritual things. and thereby make
| the whole situation one Of dignity
Il believe this thine is going thru.
but my interest in it is no; half so
large because l am going to get pen
sion bat rather because Of the evidence
IL gives of the larger recognition of the
dignity of the Christ life and the appre-
citation of self-sacriice in the social
order. | see in this whole movement
| something even greater than a noble
attempt to properly care for the min
istry / sec in il the rising tide Of tho
| kingdom of God, and we must have
much to be encouraged abodt in that