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The Cost of Ministerial Devotion

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 23, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 12.

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The Cost of Ministerial Devotion

THE Southern Baptist contains the obituary of a minister who, in a ministry of fifteen years, served as pastor of eight churches, for which he received $1,903.25. In addition to this he acted as Missionary for an Association for which he received $276.50, making his entire pay for the fifteen years, $2,179.75—an average of $145.31 per year. He was pastor of one church two years, receiving $25.20. Yet the paper gives him high praise for untiring devotion to his ministry. Such a record is a shame to any church.