The Tithe Supports the Ministry
DR. PIERSON, of Indianapolis, in one of a series of Monday evening lectures, delivered in his church, is reported by the Indiana Baptist as follows: "He said that a tithe was not the most, but the least, that the people were to give to the Lord; but even that was enough to carry on the Lord's work. Ten men can support a pastor; for if any ten men would give each a tenth part of his income to the eleventh man—his pastor—that eleventh man would have as much as each of the ten, and his own besides. If they could live on what they had left, he could live on what they had given him; so that any church of ten members can have a pastor for all his time. If any one should say that he cannot live on nine-tenths of his income, and therefore cannot give a tenth, it needs only to be replied that any man can live on one-tenth less than he thinks he can, or even does, if he had to do it."