Don't Like the Minister by Northwestern Christian Advocate

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 12, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 11.

Don't Like the Minister.

By Northwestern Christian Advocate

"I DON'T like the minister!" That settles the matter. If you don't like the minister, you have no duties to perform. Not liking the minister absolves you from all responsibility. The fact that you don't like the minister releases you from your vows. If you are a trustee, you need take no further interest in the financial affairs of the congregation. The fact that the people intrusted you with further duties, which you engaged to perform, is neither here nor there if you "don't like the minister." Of course you needn't pay anything if you "don't like the minister." Certainly not. The easiest of all ways to get rid of supporting the church and its ordinances is to say, "I don't like the minister." Of course you need not go to the prayer-meeting; why should a man pray if he "don't like the minister?" There are a number of reasons why some "don't like the minister." Some of these reasons are good, no doubt; but many are the reverse. Neither the good nor the bad absolve the hearer from his duty. Perhaps it would be presumption to ask why you don't like the minister.—Northwestern Christian Advocate.