Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
This one thing is a condemnation of the highly corrupt state of our society today. The Jews feed their poor, despite the fact that they are exiles with no fixed abode. We also hear that the Muslims are extremely generous in giving alms. It is only the Christians who neglect their own, and what happens among them is what happened long ago among the Jews—puffed-up prelates and a mean clique of priests and monks live high off the possessions of the church while the poor go begging when they are the very people whom our forebears wanted to look after by generous giving.
Even in the reformed churches there are very few who do their duty in this respect, so that those who should be supplying the needs of the church rob it, and when they have grown rich of their spoils they become public enemies of the faith, resembling no one so much as Judas Iscariot, who was Christ’s first treasurer. They attract the savage hatred of onlookers, whether they are church members or strangers to the faith. Who would say that people like that are lovers of God? Are these not the times of which were predicted: “Since wickedness will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold”?
For the reference, see Rudolf Gwalther on the evil of Christians not helping their poor.
Even in the reformed churches there are very few who do their duty in this respect, so that those who should be supplying the needs of the church rob it, and when they have grown rich of their spoils they become public enemies of the faith, resembling no one so much as Judas Iscariot, who was Christ’s first treasurer. They attract the savage hatred of onlookers, whether they are church members or strangers to the faith. Who would say that people like that are lovers of God? Are these not the times of which were predicted: “Since wickedness will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold”?
For the reference, see Rudolf Gwalther on the evil of Christians not helping their poor.