Salvation Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: V Hire, ever Higher, and 90 per cent. Commissions. 61 school for Jewish girls; and other measures are in contemplation.. From the repetition of one name ma... more »y be inferred what is most true, the want of willing helpers in these good works. No one connected with the Association receives or expects any hire, and we hope no one ever will. The hunger for hire is the bane of all churches, and ought by all means to be kept aloof by the Hebrew Christian Church of America. THE BUSINESS OF A STEWARD. "It is required in stewards that a man be found faithful." 1 Cor. rv :2 Some one whom we were reading, the other day, found occasion, to protest against interpretations that press the injunctions of our Lord not to "lay up for yourselves," but "sell that which ye have, and give alms/' etc., to the extreme of voluntary poverty and improvidence. Such self-dispossession, even to temporal impotence, has been encouraged as highly meritorious, not only in the interest of church finance or glory, but even as a condition of sanctity in cloistered devotees who have been supposed to earn by such work of supererogation divine reward redundant and transferable to others. Evangelical Christians, too, have stumbled over a one-sided view of the texts,. which would exclude the very, reason of them, and would rob them of the most of their intention and effect. Yet again, we have, found the quotation of such texts as authoritative, to. be a stumbling block to hearers, who suppose that a beneficent and faithful occupying of wealth is barred by.the.words of our Lord, and, who therefore seek—as indeed is a common practice with, expositors—to nullify them completely by.writing over them the maxims of selfish prudence, by way of exposition. ' . The idea of stewardship, consistently carried out, solves...« less