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workers under the supervision of its pastor who is a 

 master in handicraft. So this pretty nearly points the 

 ideal a church that has evolved into an ethical and 

 industrial college, where the pastor is not paid for 

 preaching, but for doing. 



Charles Bradlaugh once said, "A paid priesthood 

 blocks evolution. These men are educated to uphold 

 and defend the institution. They can do nothing else. 

 Most of them have families dependent upon them do 

 you wonder that it is a fight to the death ! It is not 

 truth that the clergy struggles for they may think it 

 is but the grim fact remains, it is a fight for material 

 existence." 



We all confuse our interests 'with the eternal verities 

 the thing that pays us we consider righteous, at 

 least justifiable. This is the most natural thing in the 

 world. 



An artist who painted very bad pictures once took one 

 of his canvases to 'Whistler for criticism. 

 Jimmie shrugged his shoulders and made a grimace 

 that spoke volumes. 



" But a man must live some way ! ' pleaded the poor 

 man in his extremity. 



" I do not see the necessity," was the weary reply. 

 Q Preachers must live ; their education and environ- 

 ment has unfitted them for useful effort ; but they 

 are a part of the great seething struggle for existence. 

 And so we have their piteous and plaintive plea for 

 the obsolete and the outworn. 



Disraeli once in an incautious moment exclaimed, "If 

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