Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-02
METhoDisrs WORKING OUT sYs.
TEN FOR CARING FOR AGED
MINISTER'S.
UPPER IOWA CONFERENCE
RAISING ENDOWMENT FUND
Sum Of 100000 to Be Completed Dur
ing Present YearAchurch Believes
ReSlred Pastors Should Be Permitted
to Pas. Their Declining Years in
Comfort.

corporations have established pension
systems for their employees who leave
their service after many years of faith
full endeavor; the Carnegie foundation
provides q pension for teachers in col
leges who become old i'll the service;
now comes the Methodist church with
plan to do for its aged and innrm
what business interests and the Carne-
gle foundation are doing TOR certain
class The Methodist church is PLAN
ming to provide Il pension on which
its retired ministers may live self-re-
specting lives with at least some OF the
comforts Of life. The Upper Iowa con-
terence, which includes the northeast
ern portion of the state, has obtained
100000 on subscription for an en-
dowment fund and are crying to in
crease this fund to 100000 within the
year, 1915. This a part of the Meth
ministers of the church. The board of
bishops has issued this call to the
church
(! Work Of Inherent.
One hundred fifty years. ago the
! Methodist itinerant began his work IN
America: began to create our church,
to help build the republic and assist
in establishing Christ's kingdom in the
world. The history of this itinerant is
full of heroism and self-sacrifice, OF
/ achievement and victory for righteous
ness. In the early heroic days the SUI
perannuated preacher and the effective
/ preacher shared alike in the modest
support then allowed to preachers and
I their families. Afterward came a
changed basis for the superannuate.
He was granted what the church
chose to give, the collection being re-
garded as benevolence and it's ap-
portionment made on the basis of the
supposed necessities in each case. To-
day our church, acting in increased
generosity and larger justice, de-
clares that the claim 10 a comfortable
support inheres in the gospel minis
try that this claim is not a gratuity
nor charity, and is not forfeited by
retirement from active service.
THE Methodist Episcopal church
now puts it's retired minister upon a
| half pay basis, reckoned on the years
Of service and thus stands alongside
those governments and corporations
which grant old age. or service pen
, sions, to those faithful servants who
thru age or illness are unable to do
the work they love-"
Plea For Justice.
The year 1915 has been chosen as
the year for the veterans jubilee. The
successful issue of the campaign will
enable conferences to provide the full
annuity for all claimants. This. then
is the appeal to the church:
The church which educates its min
istry and then disregards or casts it
shortly have no ministry, and the
church will be gone.
God gave the gospel, but it was
brought to our home and hearts by
devoted. self-denying messengers of
His Grace The world will never pay
it's debt to these men. But the church
will not repudiate their claim. The
debt is just. 1t is long overdue. Let
us make 1915 memorable for the vet
erans!
The campaign to increase the fund OF
the Upper Iowa conference is in charge
of a commission Of which the Rev. j.
P Van Horn. Oelwein, is president. the
Rev. E. ]. Lockwood, pastor OF the st.
+, Paurs NJ. z. church Of this city, is sec
rotary DR.. j. w. Bissell. former pres
ident Of Upper Iowa University IS
field agent 1t is the purpose Of the
commission to obtain If possible five
! hundred subscriptions Of $25 a year
| for four years. This will amount to
$4,000. 1t is expected that the re-
mainder Of the 100000 fund will come
from the larger and smaller subscrip-
tons.