Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — Big Pay for Sermon. [ARTICLE]

Big Pay for Sermon.

Four thousand nine hundred dollars for one sermon! It’s enough to make even the moot prosperous clergyman envious. That was the foe that the preacher at Elberflold in Prussia, received for his sermon on Whitsunday, which lasted only an hour. In MBO Baron Fwvrot, a wealthy Frenchman, provided in his will for an annual sermon* to be preached In the Protestant church of the town. The day fixed is the first Bunday in June, and the qualification to obtain the prise is that the preacher shall hold one of the poorest parishes in the diocese and that ho shall extol the virtues of the benefactor.