MINISTERS vs. DOGS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 4, 1875

MINISTERS vs. DOGS.

The Chicago Interior has the following statement and comment:—

We see it stated on very careful authority that the salaries of all ministers in the country are $6,000,000, while the cost of the dogs is $10,000,000. Is this the relative value of preaching and barking? We hear much complaint of the expense of the gospel. But who ever grumbles about the cost of dogs? We have nothing against dogs, as such, but when they come in between us and the pulpit, when the cost of supporting them is cheerfully borne by extravagant deacons, who groan over their pew-rent, we feel like exhorting them, in the words of the apostle, “Beware of dogs.”