Salaries of English Ministers
A RECENT number of Sunday at Home (London) considers the subject of the salaries paid to ministers by three denominations in England. The following statement indicates the salaries paid:— The Baptists keep their preachers the poorest; two thirds of these get less than $1,000; a large number get less than $600. Taxes and rents are high in England, and thus hundreds of Baptist preachers have to make both ends meet by working at a trade, keeping a shop, teaching school, etc. The Presbyterians, who have 352 churches in England and Wales, pay their ministers salaries ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. The Wesleyans give their ministers not less than $1,000 and not more than $1,750, and encourage home life by adding thirty dollars to forty dollars for each child.