FROM PULPIT TO COALPIT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 293, 6 September 1919, Page 7

FROM PULPIT TO COALPIT

- CLERGYMEN INSUFFICIENTLY ( ! , ..- PAID. . V , - ■ In' consequenco of'the..stan;.a.ti<w} wages ». lipid' to - Welsh' Nonconformist-ministers . many of them are seeking work in collieries arid steel ""and " tinplato- works , ■ throughout- this, district says the Swan- \ . sea, correspondent "of the Daily Ex- ~ P Their average wages do not amount to JhS a'week. -•"•* '•■ . I Tho Hov. J. Ellis, who recently resign- , eil tho pastorate of Zio'n Chapel,:; Pon tar- ; diuais, still continues his ministry at I Mount -Pleasant Congregational Chapel, . Grovesend. Ho has found work; under- .; ground-at tho Graig Merthyr Colliery, j following in tho footstep* of the Hot. | Lemuel' J'ones.. pastor of Salem Chapel, , L Before taking work as a collier Mr. & | lis worked at Grovesend Steel , Gorstfnon; as. an, ordinary mbonrer ; It is a strange inconsistency that mm- : istefrof feligion should receive less than j half- fhe .wages of most of tho ordinary / unskilled labourers who art.members of , their flocks. Compared .jritb. colliers ana j linplators; who easily earn -froiH- w - j .£lO a. week, and - eteclworkew, wbo re- , ceive from -EH to a week, with , no nppearanco to keep.up, their pli„ht ; is a piliablo one.' . j members of:t.nc?e pnsTovfl congre» i cations arc Socinliele... ivho yet neiiy their ministers suthcient to keep ,their i :iiomes going. ' One minister said to me: .j "Tho brotherhood of, man iMoo. onesided. and altogether selfish from tlu | Socialists', standpoint."