---
title: 'The Supply of Ministers'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Mayne Patterson'
date: 1880-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Ministerial Directory'
- 'Pastoral Theology'
- 'American Presbyterian and Reformed History'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 6'
- 'Hebrews 13'
- 'Luke 10'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/patterson-1880-the-supply-of-ministers
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# The Supply of Ministers

1880 Presbyterian Review examines ministerial supply: widespread vacancies, low salaries, and misdistribution. Argues churches under-support pastors despite an apparent urban glut.

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