Man-Made Ministers

The ministry has been very often degraded into a 'trade'.

They are 'selected by man', they are crammed with literature; they are educated up to a certain point; they are turned outready dressed; and persons call them 'ministers'.

I wish them all God-speed, every one of them; for as good Joseph Irons used to say, "God be with many of them, if it be only to make them hold their tongues." Man-made ministers are of no use in this world, and the sooner we get rid of them the better.

-Charles Spurgeon-