White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-01-24
CHAPTER vI-continued
"You must keep on hoping" pleaded

lou WuSt keep Oh nOplnS, piedueU
Miriam.
"They like Hiram" continued their
father. "They evidently want him.
ooh. no." gasped Marjory. "Not
Hiram. father. Not in your church"
II like him myself" said her father
gently. "Betrer him than--some
others"
But Marjory shook her head pas
sionately. mo, no." she whispered.
"Not In your church."
Ginger hurried back with the .Dis,
cipline."
.Find it. Miriam. You're up on
indexes"
Miriam deity turned to the index,
referred to section 341, hurried down
to paragraph 2. and read aloud
"'The annuity claim OF Retired
| Minister shall be not less than one
SEVENTEEN (1-7O) Of the average sal
airy. house rent excluded, Of the effec-
tive members Of his Conference who
are Pastors or District Superintend-
ents, multiplied by the number OF bis
years OF service In the effective rela
ton. including two years on trial. as
q member of an Annual Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church."
Mercy" interrupted Ginger. "It's
geometry. Well have to wait till
Horace comes home"
"Why, it's very simple" explained
her father. One SEVENTEEN of the
| salary of our cOnference-we are not
very rich one, you knows twenty
one dollars. Multiply that by"
"X-darling, you forgot r" inter
rupted Ginger again
TX is the number OF years one has
been preaching My Is twenty.
three. Multiply twenty-one dollars by
twenty-three years. and 1t comes to
four hundred and eighty-three dollars
But we have not quite enough money
In our treasury to meet the claims In
full, so the pro rata reduciien would
allow me about three hundred and
twenty dollars a year. Approximate.
ly twenty-five dollars month. That
will hardly support d family"
"Oh, dearest, you have supported
US long enough" said Miriam 1T is
our turn now"
"Why, father, with your twenty-five
month, and my-er prospects,
Why. darling, we'll be--simply jake. /"
At eleven O'clock. Eddy Jackson
came with Hiram Burkworth and the
two men listened in silence as they
told them, as indifferently as they
could, of the purport of the special
meeting.
$50 that's what It was" Eddy said
sOberly. 81 was afraid Of It,"
"They needn't offer me'your church, "
said Hiram Buckworth stontly Il
wouldn't accept It for any considera-
ton either financial or spiritual. -
Marjory glowed at MIN "Unless," he
added refectively. "uness they would
make some arrangement to let us botl
work along together, and use me as
your assistani-unhI your eyes are
rest ored."
"You couldn't work as my assistant
Hiram. You are too good man fol-
that And couldn't even assist you
blind as | am"
II don't believe the church as a
whole will stand for It," Eddy Jack
Bon broke Out, finally. ''Old Jop has
just talked them into this. And I'll
bet can talk them out of. Ii. say
we just walk out Oh them and star,
q church of our own. They might
keep most Of the money. but we'd take
most of the religion"
IAN affectiOnate thought" smiled
MIR TolIiver. "Rut not very Chris
tian one. No. Eddy. this is the thing
Q ministe. accepts. and does not
fight"
"Put up your sword Peter" quoted
Ginger softly
"Well, II worst comes to worst" de
clared the young man, "I'll move the
whole gang of you cut to Pay Dirt
and install you in ths lab And vel
; start farmers spiritual union"
Laughing at that. trey walked slow
~ out the flagstone path to the curb.
FLOWS the private business comm,
along?" Eddy asked In a low Voice.
, "Rather slowly, in The face OF suct
an emergency as this Ginger Ell,
, sighed. Il may have to forge an