New Britain herald., 1920-11-15
dollars in the quadrennium and now contains 2,s14, 900.
  Educational Work.

Educational Work.
 Reporting on the work of the board
 of education of the Methodist Epis- i copal church, Abram w. Harris, for
 mer president of Northwestern uni ersity and corresponding secretary of
 the board, told the church council
 that 1S0 educational institutions are sponsored by the board. Of this
 number 43 are colleges or universi- ties, 32 are professional and graduate schools, 36 are secondary schools for whites and g are schools for negroes. He said the property of the schools , is valued at more than S39,0O0,O00 and that their productive endowment is in excess of $34, 1000. Students
 total about 51.2O0 and the alumni
 number 119,sS4.
 Tire board has two main interests"
 said the report. One is to help stu dents attend colleges or secondary
 schools and the other to provide for
 or help to maintain these institutions.
 The student loan fund. derived from
 Sunday school offerings on Childrens
 day, has assisted more than 27,Soo
 Methodist boys and girls to get an education.'
 pr Harris said the board has re-
 lations with 15 schools for white
 people in the southern highlands and
 that because of funds raised by the
 church's centenary movement new
 buildings are being erected at John
 H. Snead seminary, Boaz, Ala, Mur-
 phy college, Sevierville, Tenn, and | Baxter seminary, Baxter, Tenn. Salaries Too Low.
 Low salaries for ministers of the gospel have reduced their number to an inefficient minimum according to | a report submitted to the Council of the Boards of Benevolence of the Methodist Episcopal church. The re- port came from Dr. Joseph B. Hing eley, chairman of the board of con- l ferencee claimants tn organization | which has had charge of raising the pension funds of the church. Inadequate salaries and the result l ant hardships have caused among ministers physical disability and men, | tai poverty, forced clergymen to take up ''side lines" in order to make a livelihood or else driven competent
 men from the profession and have kept from the work the best equip ped and most intelligent youth," ac- cOrO1ng to the report DlSCuSSlng the
 dearth of ministers the report said: ''In one denomination 3,3SS congre- cations did not have regular pastoral care. In another there were 994 fewer ministers than in 1914 A de- | nomination having 963 congregations l had only 627, settled pastors, and an- other reports an average net gain of 25,6S0 members but of only 34 min- isters-"
 The report gave a compara tive list of average salaries paid by various
 denominations but said the figures were misleading because the larger salaries make the average a maxi mum amount for most of them,' According to these figures the Protes- tant Episcopal church pays an aver agee of SPAS the PreSbyterian (North), SLIT; the United Presby- terian s1,096; the Dutch Reformed
 church s1,170; the Methodist Episco- pal (North), $1,176; the Congrega- tional s1,042, and the Baptist North 1 ern) s95o.
 ''The best young men are not de- tered from coming into the ministry from fear of sacrifice during their ac- l tive years" said the report, but they are unwilling to face poverty at the 1 end of their career"
 The report fsaid that the federal income tax returns listed only 1871 ! clergymen, as having an income of $3,000 a year and that while New Jersey ranks first among the states in the average salaries paid clergy ! men, the figure there is s1,270 a year, which is less than the S25 week | which stenographers average.