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...pastor has a right to "a decent living." In 1928 the average one got $1,407 -about the wage of a semiskilled worker. Salary problems are complicated by the fact that there is an ample supply of trained ministers, an oversupply of 40,000 to 50,000 untrained ones...
...support a well-trained minister a church should have at least 350 members. Only 13% of white Protestant churches meet this standard. There are at least 85,000 "feeble" churches unable to keep a full-time pastor, trained or untrained. Probably less than one-fourth of the churches have seminary graduates as full-time pastors; less than one-sixth have pastors with both seminary and college training. About half the U. S. Protestant pastors have neither sort of training...
...among the customers. Edward B. Marks is still publishing songs at 62, as acute to the value of a plug by Rudy Vallée as he was to one by Lottie Gilson, the curvey "Little Magnet,'' who in the 1890s drew tears each night at Tony Pastor's on 14th Street. Fortnight ago Edward B. Marks published a song history of the last 40 years, a book as shrewd in its sidelights on changing manners as it is in its appraisal of popular music...
...Where did a Puritan pastor dream of dancers and hell fire...
...What would Martin Luther have thought of an organist who chased his pastor and abused his chimes...