The Retired Minister His Claim, Inherent, Foremost, Supreme Classic Reprint

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The supremacy of the claim of the Veteran Preacher is being recognized by all the Churches. The new adjectives applied to the claim are significant: "Inherent", "Foremost," "Supreme."

The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1908 declared the claim of the Retired Minister to be "inherent."

The Presbyterian Church in 1909 adopted Dr. A.T. Pierson's word and declared that the claim was "foremost."

The National Convention of Laymen held in Indianapolis in 1913 called it "the supreme claim of the Retired Veterans."

The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in session at Washington, D.C, on October 29, 1914, demanded that the

Supreme claim should he given the Supreme Place, and closed their Address and Appeal to the Church as follows:

"We pledge ourselves and, as far as we may, pledge the whole Church to full and loyal cooperation to bring in this new and better day for the Church we love and the men we honor."

This book contains addresses made at the Inauguration Convention by men to whom the Churches have committed this great Cause, as well as by other leaders whose hearts are full of affection for Retired Ministers and whose minds and hands are employed in seeing that the Veteran Clergyman comes to his own.

As you read you will discover enthusiasm, optimism and a resolve that aged ministers of the Gospel shall not be provided for as objects of charity; but that the laymen of the Churches in whose service they have wrought, shall fulfill the promise of a comfortable support made to them when they took their ordination vows, and shall "see them through."

We are under special obligation to distinguished leaders of great Churches, and representatives of great business corporations whose illuminating articles give breadth and interest to this book by informing us as to what other institutions are doing to provide for the faithful and aged.

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