Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-10-19
NEW POINT RAISED
BY BISHOP HALL
Suggests $4,000 Salary May Be
Too High for Missions
President.

ST. Louis, Oct. 13,--A man who is paid
so"N year for his services is under
moral handicap in asking missionaries
10 go out to hard place often al small
stipends, the Right Re. Arthur G. A.
Hall, bishop of Vernon told delegates
TO the Protestant Episcopal general con-
vention to-day
bishop Hall raised the point in introduce
ing resolution at ioint session on
missions OF the two houses of the con-
Vention urging that in Fl king the stipend
Of the president Of the church board OF
missions for the next siX years, il con-
slider whether the present salary of the
president, $3.50 annually and travelling
expenses, is too large The term ot
Sishop Arthur $. Llovd. the present
president. expiring with this convention,
the board shortly will appoint sue
cessor. After some disc sion it was held
that the Joint session had no authority
to deal with the matte. Steps looking
toward the rationale ton Of social
service through congressional action were
proposed in resolution presented to the
house of deputies by the Rev George
Israel Brown Of Lancaster. Pa The
resolution which was referred to the COM
mittee on social service urged that tho
Joint commission on social service OF tho
church be directed to AXE such action
as they deem most effec We through tie
executive Of the govern cnt and through
Congress TO make an effective test oe
tho plan suggested.
A plea to the working rcoale Of
America to come into the church was
made by the Rev. J. Howard Melish oc
BROOKLYN in an address In the social
service forum. He asserted that I'm the
American churches today can be found
81 cuit tot di,o.p
but that 1t is the worker who Is absent.
The church started among the work.
ers in the beginning. a tent maker being
its chief missionary and his fellow work.
men its first members in Europe DR.,
Melsh said He said It was ignored by
the people of culture, art and social
standing To-day. he continued. the
workers in Catholic and Protestant coun-
tries are indifferent or hostile to the
church.
The Rev Or. M.li.h held the church
can only regain tho wording people by
understanding them.
First the workers want new In
dustrial environment" he continued.
One third. and possibly one-halt, of the
families of wage earnors earn, in the
course Of the year. less than enough to
support them in anything like comfort.
Only one fourth OF the fathers are able
to support their famil as on the bare
subsistence level without income from
outside sources Consequently their
families are compelled to take In board
ers or crowd in tenements Multttudes
came to this country as to the land
flowing with milk and honey. But the
milk is SKINNED and others have run
off with the honey.
There is no use telling employers tn
he kind ana generous, our competitive
system Is morally and socially bank
rupt The workers know 1t and ask
for soil where the seed Of real human
individual and social life may bring
forth fruit ahundantlv.
The church now recognizes the rich
as the class by which IS missions and
philanthropies are carried on. In the
same way why should it not recognize
the wage earning class as the instru-
mentality, under God, by which the
new economic order is to be introduced