The Winslow mail., 1920-04-16
PULPITS MAY
BECOME VACANT

BECOME VACANT
There is always plenty of money
for new cars and vacation trips and
fine dressing, but when it comes to
chipping in for the best thing in the
world, it is astonishing how skinchy
otherwise liberal spenders may be.
| Unless religion is lie and miser
able cheat, it is the most valuable
thing in the world, jewel of great
price, something to be cherished
above all other things.
In these days of high salaries it
is startling bit of information that
is given us to the effect that there
are many preachers who are working
for $500 or $400 a year. While we
have known some preachers who, in
our humble opinion, were not worth
the minimum amount named, it comes
somewhat as a shock to be informed
that really equipped and consecrated
men are working for such miserable
stipends at time when printers and
plumbers and carpenters are paying
occupation taxes on $4,000 year and
better Could there be greater ar
gument for church union ?-Roswell
News.
The young man with the desire to
lenter the ministry must be given
| the certain assurance that he can
eat of the fruit of the vineyard while
lhe plants. Without such assurance
the ministry will cease to attract,
lpulpits will become vacant, and, too
Hate, the world will awake to the
Irealization of the deprivation wrought
by it's own thoughtlessness.
Pay the preachers living salary.
The nature of their calling prevents
them from pleading for money for
themselves. Remember that they
who wait at the altar are partakels
with the altar" and that they who
lpreach the gospel should live of the
lgospel."
The gospel command, "Let him that
is taught in the word minister to hi n
that teacheth," has been ignored as
lif it were never uttered. The youn3 3
man who hears and heeds the call to
the ministry is applauded. He is er-
} couraged to give his time and talent
to obtruse study There is a virtual
Ipromise given to him that he will in
| course of time, be given a charge an1
"a salary that will enable him to COM
, Ifortably maintain himself and tn 2
family he is taught he should als1
Support.
What chilling disillusionment mus.
come to him later on as he struggles
through life on the niggardly incom
provided by too many congregations
Ito what desperate expedients mus
his wife and children resort that they
imay be clothed so as not to bring re-
proach upon the husband and the
father and the congregation. What
lrigid economy, what distressing self
sdenial, to keep home together, tC
1.-THE thousand and one monetary de-
lmands of modern life increased by the
ministers standing in a community
| Though the Lord sent ravens tt
}feed Elijah in the old days, today
lit is for the people to feed the teach
ers of His word and to do it better
than the ravens did. The laborel
lis worthy of his hire under the most
iordinary conditions and the labore1
lin Gods vineyard must be worthy Of
la great deal more Somebody has
said that if we can save the soul of
jAmerica the body, polite and social
will take care of itself In the evan
gelization of the world lies the worlds
safety.
Religion is as vital to humanity as
is food-the starved soul grows more
swolfish than the starved body. Reli-
gion is the true antidote for the men
tai poison that the world has absorb
ed-Albuquerque Journal.
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