Show A QUESTION OF SALARY elder C P margetts Mar gelts who to i laboring in the southern states as a missionary sends a clipping which has bee furnished the NEWS irom from the harts villes ville B S C messenger in which the labors of the elders of our church are strongly condemned the point made by the Jfe ener leaving the scurrility of the language out of consideration would be well worth a thorough dis cuss iob for it seems to be a vital one to mod modern e ru christianity the messenger charges that the mormon elders proclaim a free gospel white while met bodis ts baptists baptiste presbyter tans ians etc are preaching only for the money there is in it no sane man jl we are told liv wants rants a preacher to labor for nothing the majority of at our preachers have bare families to support and how are they to support them without a compensation tor for their labors As an matters stands it is a difficult task to convince many church members that it is their duty to pay according tu to their means hence it is to is an easy matter to see the troubles these elders elden will bring about if their course is not checked it cannot escape notice that our in putting on the armor in ile feuse of salaried clergymen uses very much the same argument that once made such a stir in ephesus where paul the great apostle was proclaiming the free of charge demetrius the silversmiths who with others was engaged in making statuettes of diana perceiving that the gospel was opposed to this trade addressed his oo laborera as aa follows sirs sire yo ye know that by this craft we have our wealth moreover ye see and hear that not alone at ephesus but almost throughout all asia this paul hath persuaded and turned away much people so that this abla our craft is in in danger that was the difficulty then and that is the trouble anticipated as a result of the labors of the ministers of the gospel now the salaried ministers and their champions need to be reminded it seems of the fact that no objection to la raised to a minister of the gospel receiving the necessaries of life at the hands of those to whose spiritual wants he administers that to is not the pot point ut at all our savior in sending his disciples out to preach the gospel states expressly that Is laborer is worthy of his food matth x 10 revised version and aad paul emphasizes this truth in his instructions to the churches about this then to is no difference of opinion A great many of the he ministers of the world however are nut not content with this the preaching of the gospel has been made macle a profession a trade a means whereby to make a living jiving and many look upon it in no other light than any other secular occupation when it 16 has come to this that a young man with no religious inclination whatever goes 0 college studies theology and looks about for a chance to be b appointed a preacher at a stipulated sum a month then it iu is time to raibe an earnest protest then the gospel is made a merchandise and the sanctuary denied defiled to a lamentable degree haw many ministers sot as inthey if they considered the house of the lord a market place with them the only question is to get the most remunerative position cosoi ble this ania is I 1 S the objectionable feature ut a stipulated galary fur for preachers were there no m muey uey in preaching only those who were called toy by god and felt it a du ducy gy to obey woul i engage in it then the power 0 the gospel would go with its and would be from being a larce farce As it is it stands blanda condemned by the divine wora for the gift of G d cannot br be nod neu tor for anoney anti ana arlands condemned by honest men nu an i women woman by the tho sands or ini millious mili bious ious who prefer creft ir to 10 ot oi considered infidels in eidels to being babu p i arties to lo a pious fraud |