The Systematic-Benevolence Fund and the Ministry.
By James White
We have just listened to the reading of Bro. Butler’s good words in this number upon the subject of The Systematic-Benevolence Fund and the Ministry, and we unhesitatingly endorse them as sound and necessary at the present time. Unless Bro. Butler’s suggestions be patiently considered and firmly carried out by our auditing committees it will be better for Seventh-day Adventists in the end, to abandon their present system of labor and support and throw their young ministers upon their own responsibilities, to depend upon the result of their own labors for support as most of the denominations do. But our system is the right one, and if properly guarded will reach great results.