Pastor Turns Down Raise

1900

There are few people who decline an increase of salary, but the Rev. George C. Lorimer, pastor of the Tremont Temple in Boston, is one of the few. His congregation recently voted him an increase of $1,000 a year, but he has declined the increase, stating that his present salary of $7,000 a year is enough.


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