...Christian ministry, but has also ordained its continuance and maintenance. The Lord, says Paul, " has ordained that they who preach the gospel, should live by the gospel ;" and as Paul taught Timothy and Titus to commit to faithful and competent persons, and not to novices,...

...things as they set before you, for the labourer is worthy of his hire ;' and St. Paul says, ' God has ordained that they who preach the Gospel should live by the Gospel.' Now, barring that they don't preach the Gospel at all, so that the money goes for worse than nothing,...

...holy place, eat the things that are of the holy place : and they who serve at the altar, partake of the altar. So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel, should live of the gospel."* It is but just that the people should contribute for the support of the Priest, who,...

...may do this with joy, and not withgrief ; for this is not expedient for you." (Hebr. 13, 17.) — " The Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel." (1. Cor. 9, 14. Comp. "Luke 10, 7. and 1. Tim. 5, 17. 18.)— Example of the Christians, when Peter...

...Surely we ought to consider that there is nothing on earth that has a stronger call upon us than to see that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel ; but have we not done the reverse, and said that they who preach the gospel should starve by the gospel...

...ministers' salaries. We are taught, that " the labourer is worthy of his hire," and that " the Lord hath ordained that they who preach the Gospel, should live by the Gospel." (1 Cor. ix. 14.) And that living should be a comfortable and respectable one. A minister, in order...

...equally free, and the rule of accommodation was, " first come, first served." Yet, as the " Lord had ordained that they who preach the gospel should live by the gospel," and had declared the " labourer is worthy of his hire," he placed boxes at the door for the contributions...

...(Eph. vi. 5). Know you not, that they who work in the holy place, eat the things that are of the holy place ; and they that serve the altar, partake with...the altar? So also the Lord ordained that they who preached the gospel, should live by the gospel (1 Cor. ix. 13). If we have sown unto you spiritual...

...down as a principle which there was no virtue in concealing, and no shame in avowing, that God has ordained that they who preach the Gospel should live by the Gospel. When that ministry aspires to become a priesthood, it forgets its true functions ; when it seeks selfish,...

...altar : is he not to live by the altar ? He is a preacher of the Gospel : and the Lord himself has ordained that they who preach the Gospel should live by the Gospel. This was his "right," this his "power." Nevertheless, he had foregone this right ; he had not used...