Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-09-25
RAISE PAY Of VT.
BAPTIST CLERGY
Convention Votes $1,000 Mini.
mum Salary and Parsonage
Officers Elected

Rutland, Sept A.-The Vermont Stste
Baptist convention to-day adopted
resolution, only the lay delegates voting,
liking the minimum salaries of Baptist
ministers in Vermont at 81. 900 a year and
parsonage. The vote was unanimous. II
was also voted to hold the next conven-
ton at Newport June % and 30.
, OFFICERS ELECTED
The following officers wre elected
President. Henry Bond. Brattleboro
Sioe-presidents. Elmer r Bailey Burling-
ton, Wallace w. Nichols Rutland. clerk,
the Rev J. Wesley Rafter. Windsor; trus
tees. Miss Ada A. Brigham. Bennington
Howard Crane, Burlington; the Rev. w
\. Dawson, Burlington; F, r DECKER
man. Bristol. Leon S. Gray. Cavendish :,
! the Rev. n f.. Whttemore Middlebury,
w. w. Stickney. Ludlow: f.. NJ. Bixby.
! Poultney: the Rev. j. S Braker. Burling-
/ tom J. d. Tying. Passampsic: W X. kins
man, Rutland; Mrs O w Peck, Jr., Rut-
land; Norman A. Goodwin. Montpelier,
+ the Rev j. 5. Brown, Montpelier, Mrs
Benjamin Human, Newport; b. A. Park,
Chester: Arthur o. Crane. Middlebury
\. l.. Maynard, Brattleboro the Rev.
n Il Rankin, Newport: the Rev. w G.
Towart Remington.
TRUSTEES REPORT
! The report Of the Rev DR. w A.
| Dawson for the the board of trustees
showed that SS8295.56 has been added 10
| n i 800, -, 80
/ ,.... 80 ii'N"e Wv ~ .o'.'. 5000 onn
nj, - -.
: '"'"e ''e ''''"'"e
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49,. ~, ~ ~ o.. '"' O 'o'N ~ ~
~ '',I "sel WIN ~. a. ~ D'' y
W p'o"nO,'o'' anu Co-oPeIa'e u. eNe'S "'S
:" We '"''''e VI ''"us w an "'"0i'''iio'
''V' quo,
'eNo,''o'e"" 'ia, every Pas,0i :
o"u'r" ''e,noe' ana processing ohr's,ia'i
"'"', '"e "o"nos ot 'nis S'a'e convention
preach and practice stewardship OF BODY
~ rho .Ti.hons, o,..,,o aanr,aa ~, ,0o
Northern Baptist convention
/ We recommend with A view to keep
/ ing our consecrated and self-sacrificing
! pastors and to getting proner,v trained
! men. that the minimum salary for Ban
fist pastor in Vermont he 81 600 and house
which can he ACCOMPLISHED If all tho
people become tithers"
/ rn,,,,,-pr,,e ,r,,o
|
l"e report or the treasurer Ho"ard
lane VI gu, i'ns' o"' showed mat tne
@ pc y, 'nV ga a"'ou"teu u Soo'
~ 'pua'''u
- ''e"'S ~ ("
,ri. ,,a A. 80 ooo g. I.,
1 .i. IN, ma >
rarn,a,o,. e,,,d ,,.,.i
g
! The hoard &c .r,s.aas ,,oao
alton 81 ,ho,, ,,s soo - g, 49,, -
| in Vermont which are aided Tho toto,
amount of financia, assis,,roa ,i,a,,
these parishes last wear was s12 son
The annronriation for r,issionary uorL
! this vear amounts IN 90, I'm IN oo,,
parison with s1s.425 in 1918. The total
! income the psst ~ months was 900
$50.
ADDREss Ey W p.pSS
'eu'"s an a"uress oF ~ harss
convention iis,onad r. reroarLs h., pnv
+ W. Padelford Of Boston in reference
to Vermont Academy and there was a
playet. "A Day in India by Rutland's
, young people
| Mr.. Barss said among other things
! " believe our churches are actually
! rotten with false conditions which we
maintain within ourselves. and fur
! ther believe that these standards which
we hug to ourselves so closely have so
| crippled and wrecked the hands Of our
ministry that the messages to-day are
largely substitution and apology for. and
compromising the Gospel of Christ
! rather than the words from the mouth
of the Master Himself.