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Privilege Rather Than Duty

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 27, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 17.

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Privilege Rather Than Duty

REFERRING to a recent agreement of the ministers at Atlanta, Ga., to refrain from begging for funds for local church work, the Lutheran of February 16 says:—
Certain it is that when church-members understand their duty and privilege, it will not be necessary for the minister to beg for the money required to maintain the church. The services of the sanctuary can not be gratuitously maintained; and the freer a congregation leaves the pastor of the temporal affairs of the parish, the more highly will it be possible for him to develop the spiritual life of the people. There is therefore the larger reciprocal benefit. The men of the churches are awakening to their responsibilities as never before, and we believe that the laymen are going to handle the finances without the aid of the pastors, who then will have every opportunity to develop the religious consciousness of their members.