PIN MONEY

The Reverend Leslie Glenn, minister of Christ Church, Cambridge, spoke brilliantly and courageously in the Episcopal National Council last week. The money collected for missionary work by the Episcopal Churches of America had been the subject of an investigation prompted by the million dollar deficit. It was found that only four cents to the dollar was actually given out among the missionaries. Whatever one may feel of the efficacy of missionary work by any sect, this practice was plain larceny, the raising of money under false pretenses. It appears that church-men have been cognizant of the matter for a long time, many employing the funds for purely practical purposes around their vestries and churches, supplementing their salaries, repairing their front porches, and sundries.

Glenn called this pilfering of the church's war chest . . . . "stealing, misappropriation, embezzlement . . ." powerful words before a convention of prelates. His capably expressed indignation deserves praise from the whole body of the laity, not only for the justice of it, but for its vigor and motivation. Such outspoken men are few enough in the ranks of the clergy, and it is an encouraging sign of the age to discover a minister as strong in action as he is from the pulpit.