For the Work of the Ministry for the Classroom the Study And the Street
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The minister need not be astonished at any reve- lation of meanness on the part of any of the mem- bers of his church. Such may be due to previous lack of training, to a heritage received from min- isters of the past, or to original sin, that heritage from a still remoter antiquity. We are not sur- prised that a noted preacher once exclaimed: " When I look at the congregation I say, ' Where 238 FOR THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY are the poor ? ' When I count the offertory in the vestry, I say, ' Wher...e are ^Jhe rich ? ' ' The treas- urer of a certain Presbyterian church, himself an ac- countant, has written a striking paper on " Financial Worship. " In this paper he sets forth that it is well-nigh impossible to talk about beneficence, sys- tematic or otherwise, systematic parsimony being a more accurate title. He concludes with the con- viction, " If Christians are not trained to give when young, nothing short of dynamite will move them when they have grown old. " Let the Christian min- ister remember, and let him emphasize again and again both in teaching and in practice, that giving is in many ways the very highest form of worship, because the most unselfish, involving as it often does self-denial and sacrifice, as prayer and praise do not.
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