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Comparing Clergy Salaries With Other National Expenses

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · January 15, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 3

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Comparing Clergy Salaries With Other National Expenses

—THE Covenant replies to Col. Ingersoll’s slant that we pay our preachers too large salaries, by reminding him that while we pay them $12,000,000 annually, our lawyers cost six times as much,—about $70,000,000,—our criminals $40,000,000, and our liquor bill is about $200,000,000. What if the Colonel should turn his economical and oratorical screw upon these costly outlays!—Christian Weekly.