Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1919 — PASTORS TAKE UP MINING [ARTICLE]

PASTORS TAKE UP MINING

Welsh Clergymen, With Less Than SSOO a Year, Turning to Collieries. Cardiff.—lt was stated at the assembly of the Welsh Baptist union in Abera von that many Welsh nonconformist clergymen are receiving less than SSOO a year. Some of them recently left the ministry and went into coal mines, where they were able to earn four times as much. The speakers mentioned that there was now a serious shortage of clergymen, several churches being without them. ;