FINDING FAULT WITH MINISTERS.
There are many persons whose religion consists in finding fault with ministers. Nor are they all of the world. Some church members think this one of the privileges of their profession. And as Satan desired to sift as wheat, Simon; so they sift the character and life of their minister. Every word he speaks, and every act he performs, in private and in public, at home and abroad, must be weighed in their balance—and if he is found wanting, they must post up the church and the world in reference to his defects and infirmities. This part of religion must be attended to by some one. "All members have not the same office." And as they have a peculiar taste, if not talent, for finding fault, and no relish for anything more spiritual, they are faithful in pointing out his real and imaginary defects. And thus they save him from that woe which Christ said rested on ministers, when all men spoke well of them.