Article April 3, 1902 Issue

Should They Receive Pay?

ALBERT E. MILLER

The Times

Editor The Times.

A short time ago there appeared in your columns a query concerning the right of Christian Scientists to charge for their services.

It seems odd that any one should question the right of another to receive just pay for the time given in any service, be that service what it may. The minister of the gospel receives a stipulated sum for his services, and no one can accuse him of charging for the gospel he preaches or the prayers he makes. What is given him is an honest return for his labors that he may live comfortably and not become a public charge. This example was given by our Master who told his disciples to abide in any house where they were received, and if not hospitably received to shake the dust of such place off their feet. The same principle obtains in these later days, although the customs of the times are very different; and it would be thought strange on the part of any one who desired to labor and pray for another, to insist on taking up his abode with him.

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