Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
This is a story taken from the newsletter of the Azusa Street Mission, in Los Angeles California, in 1906.
What mean these salaried preachers over the land that will not preach unless they get so much salary? People have wondered from the old landmarks. The priests had no land of their own. They were to live on a tithes and offerings. The ministers of the day have wandered from the old landmarks, therefore they are seeking salary over the land. Get back. You have no time to lose. We must all be up and doing something for perishing souls around us. Do you want to be blessed? Do you want the approbation of God? Be a servant to humanity. The loaves and fishes did not multiply in the hands of our blessed Redeemer till He began to give out to the hungry.
God does not need a great theological creature that can give nothing but theological chips and shavings to people. He can pick up a worm and thrash a mountain. He takes the weak things to confound the mighty. He is picking up pebble stones from the street and polishing them for His work. He is using even the children to preach His Gospel. Hey young sister, fourteen years old, was saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Ghost and went out, taking a band of workers with her, And let a revival in which one-hundred ninety souls were saved. Salaried ministers that are rejecting the Gospel will have to go out of business. He is sending out those who will go without money and without price. Glory to God for this Apostolic day.
William James Roop, M.A.B.S.
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