Generous Support

Preachers, whether stationed or traveling, should receive a generous support. True ministers of the gospel feel that they must preach without regard to money consideration. Like Paul, they can say: "For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto mc, if I preach not the gospel." But a generous brotherhood will extend to all such self-sacrificing men a generous support. If a man is fit to preach, he is worth wages. If he is worth wages, he should receive them with all the business regularity that is demanded and enforced in business life. There is no man in the community who works harder for what he receives than the faithful minister. There is no man—in whose work the community is interested—to whom regular wages, that shall not cost him a thought, are so important.--Anon