Heaps of Teachers by Dudley Marvin Canright

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 9, 1875

Heaps of Teachers.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

ONE sign of the last days is that many shall heap to themselves teachers. 2 Tim. 4 : 1–4. This sign is abundantly fulfilled. Every little village has a half dozen or more preachers, while one may be found for every school-house in the country.

A Presbyterian paper says :—

“We have a surplus of ministers in the Presbyterian church. We mean that we have more well qualified ministers than we can employ efficiently, and support comfortably. Probably we have about five hundred men of fair qualifications who are unemployed in the ministry, because they cannot find living fields, and our Home Mission Board cannot sustain them.”

And so a Baptist paper says :—

“A great many men in orders are keeping school, writing books, keeping books; are employed on the daily papers, and eke out a scanty living in various ways. Regularly ordained Episcopal ministers who are assistants in churches are regularly in trade, or on the Stock Exchange and on the street; some are well known real estate men, and have offices in the city.”

D. M. C.