The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-22

I promise pastor little specie. but keep
his larder well stocked. In cities most
people realizing the worth of churches
land the value of ministers to the COM
munity, declare they ought to be sup
ported in no niggardly manner but
many do not practice the theory much.
MY own experience with churches Is
that they are in favor of promising tbs
minister certain fixed and generous
salary and then promptly paying 1t.
Business men. who generally run the
finances of a church. believe in business
principles.
Some things We're neeessarysin the be-
ginning of the gospel which are no
longer demanded. Just as a man who
is not a church member Is under as much
obligation to do right al one. who is
member. so no Christian man has
right to demanr more of minister than
he is willing to do himself :.
"IIow long do you think religious
newspaper would run that charged no
subscription price. but said we will let
the subscribers pay whatever they wish
and VIZ will trust the Lord for the sup
port of our family and the education of
our children? From being his printer,
groceryman or his school teacher, Good
Lord deliver usI
GAS to Mr.. Chase preaching exclusive
ly to tramps, my heart echoes the warm
wish, May God blss his efforts for the
homeless and poor! If the Southside
Baptist church were only out of debt
and had the necessary funds I doubt not
1t would become rapidly an institutional
church, with reading room night school,
employment agency, and larger plans
for aiding the poor. But we ara in dam
ger of neglecting the rich. They nave
their burdens and sorrows and heavy
cares. and the church has no right to
neglect any class of fallen mankind to
give exclusive thought and attention TO
another The tendency, now so plainly
evident and popular with the unthink-
ing. of embittering and arraying class
against class, is highly reprehensible to
all classes. Let all things be done de-
Gently and in order. Not slothful In
business, fervent in spirit, serving the
Lord. We need less suspicious criti-
cism and more of the charity that think
eth not evilf but hopsth all things.
DIR. L. S. HANDLEY, CENTRAL
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: II know
nothing of Rev. Logan Chase, of New
Heven. I know his teachings are out of
harmony with the work of God. The
Old Testament priests were sustained by
the tithes of the people. The Lords
Tithe In Numbers 1921, we have This
statement. And behold 1 have gwen
the children of Levi all the tenth in Is
rael, for an Inheritance, for their serv-
| ices which they serve, even the service
of tn tabernacle of the congregation
Many believe that this 1.-THE law for the
| service of the sanctuary has never been
| abolished.
In tn New Testament we find such
I statements as this Luke 1879 For the
| laborer is worthy of his hire. In 1. Cor
I 9Th chapter to 18th verse the apostle dis
E~coursas the subject of minis erial sup
port. He says The Lord ordained that
they which preach the gospel should live
of the gospel The entire passage is
worthy of careful study by any one who
sympathizes with Mn Chase. Beginning
with the 9th verse of she 9th chapter Of
l. Cor, we read: For Ut is written in
the law Of Moses thou shalt not muz-
zle the mouth of the OK that treadeth out
the corn" Doth God take care of oxen?
/ ''If we have soWn unto you spiritual
things, IL is great thing If we reap you
! carpal things? Do We know that they
| which minister about holy things live
| of the 1hings of the temple? and they
| which wait cit the altar are partakers
| with the altar? Even so hath the Lord
| ordained that they which preach the gos-
| pei should live of the gospel.
II could give other passages of Script
ure bearing directly on this subject, but
| the above will suffice to prove that 1t
| is the Lords will that ministers of the
gospel should be supported by the peo-
| pie they serve. Let him THAT is taught
| in dhe word communicate with him that
teacheth in all good things.-Gal. Vic"