It shifts the responsibility of church support from the congregation to outsiders, and hence is a dodge or avoidance of a gracious and imperative duty.

One would suppose that in gratitude to Him who paid down for us "the gold of his blood and the silver of his tears," the church would gladly spend and be spent for the support and advancement of Christ’s kingdom. Moreover, the less noble motive would seem to affect us, viz., that our coming reward at the judgment will be regulated and graduated by the extent of our sacrifices for the Son of God. With many, both motives fail, and a duty and privilege as well, is forfeited and transferred, with all its blessedness, to a crowd that corresponds with the "mixed multitude" that came up out of Egypt with Moses at the time of the Exodus. A multitude that, if not Egyptians, were certainly not Israelites.

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