“The principles involved in this plan for the support of the religious orders are still applicable. God alone is the absolute Proprietor of all things. We are all stewards, and are responsible for the use, no less than the acquisition, of what we may have. By the covenant of grace, a competent livelihood is still secured to all the true children of Abraham. Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come (1 Tim. iv. 8). And God still retains His claim to a tribute. And is it not a just and interesting view of the matter to say that this tribute is properly due to Christ as priest? It is through Him that God blesses His people. It is through Him they serve and worship God.”
Alexander Stewart, The Tree of Promise