Concerning Laying On of Hands

The following questions were received from the Bible Study Class of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Burnie, Tasmania. Our question concerns Acts 6:6: "Whom (the seven deacons) they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them." Today in the ordination of ministers in Reformed churches, the laying on of hands is still being practiced, also in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Australia. But there is no laying on of hands in the ordination of...