The Support of Needy Students

The Churches shall exert themselves, as far as neces­sary, that there be students supported by them to be trained for the Ministry of the Word. (Article 19) This article reposes upon the idea that the churches are in the need of trained ministers of the gospel. The induction into the office is to be preceded by a period of training during which the aspirant is in the need of the means of living, which, so the article under con­sideration requires, must be given him by the churches of he be...