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3-t the old price ; and that , while every trade and every profession besides is in the receipt of a n > uch larger quantity of money , in consequence of the low state of the circulating medium , the Dissenting minister has not the mean ? of
enabling him to go with a fair balance of advantage into the market * Even our respectable congrega-. tjons seem to think they do enough for their jninisters if they raise them a little more than a hundred a year . But , Six , the plainest deductions of arithmetic will
shew them that this cannot be enough . Much do I wish that I could with prudence educate my son to the Christian ministry : it is my desire as rni } ch as it was my father ^ . But indeed , as his faithful friend , I am forbidden to think of it .
And the present scarcity of welleducated ministers is likely still to increase , if some steps are not taken , by those who profess the Protestant Dissenting religion , to render the situation of their
ministers more easy and more worth the acceptance of jpneri of letters . How fortunate is the case of the clergy of the Church ! Their income , being derived frptn land , increases witt > the advance of the
produce of the land ; and , if our jpap ^ r money should depreciate ten 4 ipxes more than it has , they are seci ^ re ; because they will still receive their just proportion of the co ^ n and the wine * But what is to become ot * us ? Harder times
aj-e likely to make shorter salaries ; and they will go on lessening , instead of advancing , as the pFioe of every thing gets , feigtovtfct g ^ Jfe f £ 9 * vyty > li ^ a , t their ease and roll in their carriages , ( for some such there are still a-
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mongst vis , ) let manufacturers and tradesmen think as they will , or think not at all of the respectability and comfort of the ministers whose spiritual things they receivethey must soon abandon the
religion which they profess to love , or have their pulpits filled by men whose services will t > e irksome to them , or they must come forward in a more liberal , I will say in a more equitable , manner , and encourage the preacher to the performance of his duty , and parents
to the learned education of ^ heir children for the Christian ministry , by giving more of their carnal things . Let them copsider the actual price of the necessaries of life , arid let them remember th ^ t a Christian ^ rninister , a npai > of character and of education , ha $ a
right to live in tolerable ease $ and that be does not ask any things un * reasonable y ^ en he demands a stipend augmented according to the rise of the time ? . . To such a pas ? is the injustice of son \ e of our cont
grecatiohs now arrived ^ that I am a ; Cquai ^ ted ^ ith th , Q ^ e who ^ because ttiey subscribe amon ^ tjheni a Tittle moje than two hundred a year , must , forspoih , divide that extraordinary sum between , twp
ministers , ariicj so keep them bot ^ in ^ n honourable poverty ! Byt wb ^ t is \ hat sum ^ v / ha ^ i ? dou ^ Je that sum , to compensate a man of .
sterling worth and distinguished abiluies , and it is the ^ e they choose to engage , for the labour of his head and the price of his time .
^ Vqul ^ d , a physician , \ vou' ( J an a v * vp ^ ate think four hundred a year a ^ n equivalent ( or th ^ serv ^ eea , qf ^ s pr 9 fes ? ioi > ? And m ^ st a Cji ristii | ii 4 f » yine have so Jow a value set qn h | p ' ^ igacity t ? $ o ^ ood , that , a&e fc ^ Ife o | ^ dv iflt whvh \ xm
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The Dissenting Minister ? ? Complaint . Z& 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/13/
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