. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... SALARY 274 Ministerial Salaries: MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND PENSIONS and is threatening a disastrous crisis. Theinadequate financial support accorded him in1914 has been increased less than 15 per cent,which makes his present salary actually, or rela-tively, much less than it was four years ago. According to the report of the Commission onFinance for the year 1918, 15,271 of the 16,774 Methodist Episcopal pastors in the UnitedStates, or 91 per cent., received an averagesalary, includi
. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... SALARY 274 Ministerial Salaries: MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND PENSIONS and is threatening a disastrous crisis. Theinadequate financial support accorded him in1914 has been increased less than 15 per cent,which makes his present salary actually, or rela-tively, much less than it was four years ago. According to the report of the Commission onFinance for the year 1918, 15,271 of the 16,774 Methodist Episcopal pastors in the UnitedStates, or 91 per cent., received an averagesalary, including house rent, of $907. The remaining 9 per cent, received salaries gen-erous enough to bring the total average of pas-tors support up to the cash basis of $971, or$1,106 including THIS picture is not a family group. Dr. Seth Reed of Flint, Michigan,now in his ninety-eighth year, one of the oldest living ministers; and B. Hoyt, retired, seventy years of age, represent the past; two pastors,forty-five and twenty-five years old respectively, represent the present andthe three boys represent the future. See further explanation on page 275,opposite, where a serious question is raised for the churches to answer. MINISTERIAL SALARIES AND PENSIONS: Ministerial Salaries 275 Paying Less than their Fathers THE failure of the laity to meet its financial obligations is the principal causeof scant salaries. The attendant difficulties of recruiting an acceptable min-istry and the loss of men who are forced to engage in business enterprisesin order to provide for their families threaten the ministerial supply and the lifeof the church. That in the face of a doubled membership and large property accumulation the lay-men indi\idually pay no more than their fathers did is a
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