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fellowship any who should do these obligations. f949 That the churches, when
able to do so, should so support their ministers as to leave them free from all
worldly care, is, from the following Scriptures as clear as that Christ is the Son
of God: “The laborer is worthy of his hire.” — Luke 10:7.
“Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially
those who labor in word and doctrine. For the Scripture saith: ‘Thou shalt not
muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And the laborer is worthy of his
reward.’” — 1 Timothy 5:17-18.
“Who goeth a warfare at his own charges? f950 Who planteth a vineyard and
eateth not of the fruit thereof? f950 Or who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the
milk thereof? f950 Say I these things as a man, or saith not the law the same
also? f951 For it is written in the law of Moses: ‘Thou shalt not muzzle the
mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.’ Doth God take care for oxen? Or
saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt this is written. …
If we have sown to you in spiritual things is it a great thing if we should reap
your carnal things? … Even so HATH THE LORD ORDAINED THAT THEY
WHO PREACH THE GOSPEL SHOULD LIVE OF THE GOSPEL.” — 1
Corinthians 9:7-11-14.
Paul, in order that he should not prejudice the heathen, in planting the
Corinthian church, charged nothing for his services, but says: “I robbed other
churches, taking WAGES from them to do you service.” — 2 Corinthians
11:8. f952 Therefore, Paul says it is as unlawful for a preacher to make his living
as for a soldier to do so —
“no man that warreth, entangleth, himself with the affairs of this life, that he
may please him who chose him to be a soldier. And if a man strive for
masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully. The husbandman
that laboreth must first be partaker of the fruits.” — 2 Timothy 2:4-6.
Turning to history, we find that during ages persecution prevented Baptists
from building educational institutions and conducting missions on as extensive
a scale as to-day, or supporting their pastors as well as to-day. But, such
opportunities as they had for this work were often improved. The Waldenses,
etc., were pre-eminently a missionary church, their missionaries so widely
scattering the gospel seed as to revolutionize Europe, produce the
Reformation, and, consequently, the liberty and the Christianity of our own
times. Whittier has put into verse the story of a secret possessor of a precious
Biblical manuscript, a traveling Waldensian merchant, who guardedly unfolds
his treasure to a noble lady, to whom he had been exhibiting his costly silks