The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-12-15
keokuk Ministerial Association to
oend Memorial to Senators
Asking Them to Sign
This.
SESSION HELD TO-DAY
Paper on compensations Read by tho
Rev. s. c. Benninser. Pastor OF
Methodist Protestant
Church.

The Keokuk Ministerial associa-
|tion will send memorial TO the
Iowa senators urging speedy ratl'
fcation of the peace treaty. 1t was
decided at the meeting of the asso.
citation this morning. The associa.
ton plans for special services in the
churches the first Sunday in the
year. The first week In the new year
will be observed as week OF prayer,
with union services.
! ."Compensations Of the Ministry
That are Better Than Money" was
the subject of paper by the Rev.
is. C. Benninger, pastor of the Meth
odist Protestant church. He spoke
of the fact that number of minis
tiers had left their puipits and had
gone into business. ministers as a
class, taking the average salary are
about the most poorly paid Of any
social group.
/! Answering the question. does it
pay, he says:
..As ministers we know that we
are all liable to be discouraged, at
times. We look around the world,
I've see the civil engineer completing
some gigantic task and receiving the
plaudits of the world. we see some
general directing the movements of
la vast army with skill and success,
and hailed as a hero; we Look upon
the man at the head OF a big bust
ness, employing thousands OF men
and responsible for the investment Of
millions of money-we see him in his
palatial home and hear him spoken
of as an example of success. Then
we turn our eyes upon ourselves. We
think of the humble and obscure
place we occupy, Of the small num-
Der OF people to whom we preach, CT
our Strengthened financial circum-
stances, and we cry out from the
anguish of our souls does it pay?'
Says It Pays.
Yes, 1t pays. Not only in divi
dends that cannot be computed in
dollars. dividends that accrue to US,
but we may be helping more men
and women in the really worth while
matters OF life, than the great man
whose picture Is on the page of every
and magazine. The work |
of the minister is with the immortal /
soul, and wherever we touch a man |
and lead him into the truth and bring |
him in contact with God, we have |
done work that will stand through I
eternal ages"
Rev Benninger spoke humorously
Of the side of life that the preacher |
fequently sees in his work with his
and in his calls. He
says that preachers are not funeral, /
but as class have more fun and see
more fun than other men. While they
may have their financial problems,
both personally and Of their churches
they are as rule OF happy DISPOSE
ton. Homes are opened 10 minis
ter where as mechanic and business
man he could not enter.
Standing in Community.
"The minister's standing in a COM
while he is NOT reverenced
for his calling as he once was. IS
qualification to any man who likes
10 feel that his work rs appreciated
md that he is filling enc OF the
highest callings of life. Men today
receive the minister on more init
mate terms. he is more OF a man
among men than formerly. and yet
men look up to him, they expect
rom him higher type of character,
broader sympathies and more
-aried knowledge than they do from
men In most other calIings. Any
nan who is a naturaf student will
ind more intellectual enjoyment and |,
in the work of the
ministry than In any other calling. |,
His preparation Of his sermon is de-
ightful, to see our thoughts grow on
,aper is a delight inezpressible" Is
In concluding his paper, Rev. Ben
finger spoke Of the privilege a pas n
or has in touching lives and in
Erecting men, women and children
nto the ways Of righteousness and 4
ut OF sin
co-Workers Win God.
tWe need tn remember that we