Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-06-25
The Good That Salaried Minis
ters and Teachers Are Doing.

Editor News:
| see that all the correspondents of
the News are discussing the salaried
preacher question. | want to show all
of our writers what good the salaried
preachers are doing, but first l want
to say what think about it.
/ believe in paying a good, honest,
christian preacher, who has been or
dained by God to preach the Gospel,
and not one of those who seeing a
chance to defraud the people, will go
around and preach for money and
nothing else. Such man | would not
give a copper cent for. never kick
on paying good preacher my share of
his salary There are two kinds of
kickers against paying preachers. One
who kicks against paying money
hunting preacher, and one who kicks
against paying good, honest, God
ordained preacher. | am proud to say
that kick against the former and l
am glad to say that there is very
small per cent of our little camp that
do kick against the latter. am glad
to name one who believes in paying
good preacher and who does his share
He is our worthy writer, VIM Loach.
AS to preacher who will get up in
the pulpit and tell the people that if
they don't pay him more he will have
to leave, / don't believe such man is
christian 1t looks as if he were a
money hunter instead of preacher
who is ordained by God to preach.
Some people go to church for years
and pay good attention to the sermon
and they send their children to Sunday
school every Sunday, but when the
stewards or church officials come
around to make up the preachers sal
airy they say, let him go to work and
make his living Well, don't he work?
He breaches to you. He visits you
when you are sick, and he has his SER
mons to study over. Each one of his
sermons take long hours Of hard medi-
tating to prepare them for the people
to hear.
Now, if the preacher goes on and
does his pastoral work well, or if he
breaches you good sermons, why not
help pay his salary I do not mean by
this, that preacher is too good to go
down in the mines and dig coal, or in
to the field and plow, or do any other
hard work because he is not, for Paul
plowed. Our old, grey haired fore
fathers worked in the week and preach
ed on Sunday, in their homespun
clothes, and they were respected just
as much as any of the preachers who
had to have broadcloth clothes to dc
their preaching in. You never saw a
preacher yet that did not do some kind
of work to help him along. Some Of
them deal in Bibles, some in christian
literature and some in many other
things which help them along. A
preacher should take what the people
give him, and not say anything about
it, even if it is small sum. If it il
so that some of the members can't pay
their part of his salary, he has not got
to get up in the pulpit and say that
they can sell an old dress or a CHECKER
or something to pay it with. Ht
should not try to to get money thai
could not be given with a free will
If | were a preacher and man woul(
come up to me and give me 800 and
: knew that he was not giving it with {
free will, | would refuse it. | want t,
{ give you all some advice. Away
5 keep your eyes open for these none!
9 hunting preachers. You can Away
l tell them if you will be sharp. If yol
want preacher, get good, homes
man.
g want to tell you the good tina
n these good, honest, God ordained, sal
e aried preachers are doing. First, the.
are trying with all their might an,
e Gods help to- win souls for Christ
: They are helping to organize league
I and religious societies for the youn
= people. They are trying to make tn
church more frequently visited place
I The good preachers of our day ar
: causing our children to take more in
s terest in the Sunday schools, They ar
e helping in the work of putting th
II curse of our beautiful land out of bus
mess, that is whiskey. They go int
the low dives of the large cities an
save young men and women from
ruined and disgraced life. They al
causing young and old people to qui
: reading cheap, trashy literature. G
T. to large city on Sunday afternoo
20 and you will see car full of youn
70 people going to the parks, and you wi
i see another car full of people going
some church where religious meeting
, are going on, when just short tin
- before both of these crowds were on,
=, Now they have divided. Who Ia
= caused this The good preachers hay
g done this. Can't we now see whi
= they have done? They are savin
. thousands of souls every year from sill
That alone ought to make us give OF
! money freely When you go to churC
> and Drop your nickles and dimes il
~ you never think of the good it is goir
= to do.
- The money that is given in churC
ar goes for three different things. Pa
~. to the preacher and church, a secOn
II part for benevolence and third f,
40 missionary work. Now, can you 81
any reason why we should not gi'
or money to the church and preacher?
= is the best cause you could give it fo
81 As long as the world turns around Il
I'M good honest preachers will be paid
=. the people who want TO see the wor
christianized, regardless of how Ihut
g, some people kick.
h. The christian people of our land W
.b never let the preacher go unTeward,
ba for their work here on earth a
though God will reward them in hea
EN- the people viii also reward the
here
"a Look at the good the money has do
J' that the rich men have donated 70 {
church IL pays the foreign mission
rieS. II has helped to chriStianize Ci
ma. Japan and all the rest Of the
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