Financial Assistance for the Poor Who Move

Previous article in this series: July 2009, p. 423. "Furthermore, to the poor, removing for sufficient reasons, so much money for traveling shall be given by the deacons as they deem adequate. The consistory and the deacons shall, however, see to it that they be not too much inclined to relieve their churches of the poor, with whom they would without necessity burden other churches." Church Order, Article 83. Article 83 of the Church Order is closely related to Article 82. Article 82 concerns...