CHURCH:
SUCCESS; PASTORAL MINISTRY: PRIDE

Knox Church, Hamilton, was one of the finer churches of Canada, very well-to-do and respectable, with more than twenty years of colorful history behind it, having a large congregation, and equipment the best that money could buy. It had a reputation among the churches, and when for any reason its pulpit became vacant the greatest preachers of the Presbyterian ministry were called to fill it. Such are the ways of churches. The ones that have, to them shall be given, and they shall have more abundantly, and the largest churches take it for granted that they should be able to command the biggest preachers. And ministers, being still human, are too often ready to agree with them.

1 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Corinthians 4:5–7; 1 Thessalonians 2:6–7

Wingspread; A.B. Simpson: A Study in Spiritual Altitude, 37.