The Pulaski Citizen

Ministerial Salaries.

The New York correspondence of the Troy Times, apropos of the Episcopal convention in that city, presents an interesting array of figures, showing the contrast between the salaries enjoyed by the clergy of the metropolis and the divines now assembled there from rural parishes. It is a rare thing for a country pastor to receive more than $1,000 a year, though in large inland towns the rates may be increased to $2,000 and even $3,000; but only thriving cities can give what really is a handsome support. Commencing with this Episcopal body, its best paid clergy are Potter, of Grace Church, and Morgan Dix, each of which receives $12,000 a year. In addition to this both have elegant rectories and thus live rent free. Grace Church, over which Potter presides, is very rich. The individuals who form the congregation are a solid and opulent class, and when the house is full it contains $20,000,000. William Morgan, the rector of St. Thomas, has a salary of $10,000, and Montgomery, of the Church of the Incarnation, Haight, of St. Paul's, and Swope, of Trinity Chapel, are each paid $10,000. The senior Tyng, rector of St. George's, is paid $8,000, with a comfortable rectory adjacent to his church. The junior Tyng, rector of the Holy Trinity, receives the same salary. Rector Cook, of St. Bartholomew's, receives $8,000, while John Cotton Smith is paid only $5,000. The best paid and hardest worked minister in the Presbyterian Church is John Hall, whose salary is $10,000, payable in gold. He is a prodigious worker, and, even in a professional view, earns his salary five times over.

The opulent Collegiate Dutch Church pays its pastors $8,000 a year, with a retiring pension of $5,000. These fortunate divines are Chambers, Vermilye, Ludlow and Ormiston. In the Universalist Church, Chapin leads with $5,000 a year, but he is able to make as much more by lecturing. Bellows receives $8,000, but is otherwise independent. Deems is paid $5,000, which may be increased by some presents from Mrs. Vanderbilt, who is one of his patrons.