SWEATED CLERGYMEN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 867, 13 July 1910, Page 6

SWEATED CLERGYMEN.

: « — INCREASED COST OF^LIVTNG. Goldsmith's village preacher, "passing rich on £40 a year," would no doubt have luxuriated in affluence had he received £175 a year. But the latter sum is barely a living wage, for among the twentieth century Presbyterian clergymen in New Zealand at the present day many are receiving no more —some receive less. At yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Presbytery, the' Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott gave notice, in the following terms, of hiE intention to have the whole question of stipends threshed out in the near future:—

"Whereas it is ordained- 'that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel,' and whereas the present stipend of many of our ministers north of the Waitaki does not exceed the sum of £175 per annum, and whereas in view of the rise in recent years of all household and family expenses, the above sum cannot be regarded as. the 'living wage,' the Presbytery of Wellington hereby resolves to overture tho Venerable the General Assembly, indicted to nieet in Auckland 'on November 9 nest, to take the above premises, into .consideration, and devise such means of relief as to the wisdom of the Assembly may seem most meet."