Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — Well-Pad Evangelists. [ARTICLE]

Well-Pad Evangelists.

TJiepay evangelists receive is very small.when it is remembered howyexIjausting' and responsible''their work is, says Ben Deering, of St Lduis. I mean .the . .oi'dinary_ -erangcli&l=the man who is without it National reputation. 'I have preached in a Missouri (own for a week and crowded the church four times a day, receiving only S6O at the end of 'my work. Of course, Ttre^nrnigeitstS'^Avlte6®-^feiße ; -4&'9pread" over tho whole country make more money than this, but even their pay is nothing like what it is made by extravagant popular stories. Harrison, the boy preacher, is always in demand, and changes $lO a day for his services, whether he is engaged for a week or a month. He is worth about $60,000. Moody makes no charge for his services, but he is paid much better than Ha rrisou. His two wvelrb prcachlng' in St.- Louis made him SI,OOO. He is worth about $90,000. Sim Jones is the best paid man of them all, but he gives away so much money that he is not wealthy, For nearly a month’s work in Kansas City he got $3,000 and Sam Small got sl. UIK). St. Jon paid Jones $1,500 for two weeks. I gave him SI,OOO for his week at Culver Park camp-mectiug this snmmer, lie is worth about $30,000. all of his money befog invested in Georgia property. He maintains a camp-mceting ttibernacle near his home, where he holds a two weeks’" revival every year. He pays all the expenses of the preachers ..who-come, and.. .they amount to a good ,Lla..,.nexer . makes a fixed charge for bis work, Sam Small has come into great demand as a campaign Prohibition orator, and is now stumping Dakota. He is being paid $75 a day and his traveling expenses.