This is typical of the spoiled state of many New School Ministers of big cities - ed.
The Second Avenue Baptist Church has granted their pastor, Rev. Edward Lathrop, a leave of absence for six to nine months, owing to his impaired health, to enable him to make the tour of Europe. His salary of $2,500 will continue, and a purse of $2,000, is being made up by the members of his church and congregation as a testimony for him.
Reverend Edward Lathrop
How many thousands of the suffering poor including hundreds belonging to the communion of these new school churches, are suffering for want of the necessaries, not to say comforts of human existence, in the city of New York, and perhaps within sight of the place where the congregation of this" rev." gentleman professes to worship; or are driven by extreme distress to the Poorhouse, while the "Liberality," of the professed disciples of the Redeemer, are making up a purse of $2,000, in addition, for the salary of $2,500, allowed to this "reverend" invalid, with a remission of his obligation to earn his salary.
Well, might David say of such characters, "Their eyes stand out with fatness, and they have more than the heart can wish."
February 15, 1853
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