PREACH FOR HIRE | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 9, 1860

"PREACH FOR HIRE."

The Baptist Elder above referred to wanted a salary of seven hundred dollars a year (only himself and wife to support), but the church did not feel able to give it, and so offered him six hundred. He then proposed to them to call it seven hundred, and he would donate the one hundred dollars for the benefit of the church. But the church could not all agree to such hypocrisy, so the Elder was not permitted to advertise himself as a "seven hundred dollar man."

As a mechanic hires himself out to the highest bidder, so do these time-serving ministers.