FAMINE IN CLERGYMEN.
, There is a clergyman famine in tho United States just' now', which has' bocomo almost as acute as ,tho, domestic servant- problem (writes a New York correspondent). -It is attributed'chiefly to the allurements of commercial lifo, and exists not only in Episcopal', but in the Nonconformist churches. Tho chief remedy suggested • is increased pay. it >is a common thing now to pay domestic servants in tho 'United States £4 monthly, and many receive even more. This remuneration, however, has not solved the difficulty, and good' sorvants are still as rare as good' parsons But it -is believed/ that if the latter aro paid as liberally, proportionately, as aro housemaids' and ."generals," which is not the case as a rule now, there wilJ be a better supply of ministers throughout the country. . , At tho Nonconformist ''Convention increased pay was recommended as tho only remedy for the existing state oi affairs.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1907, Page 13
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