A Plan To Find The Poor

It has happened once again in most of our churches. A certain portion of the consistory has retired after two or three years of service; among them the deacons. Deacons have been elected, served, and retired and the disturbing thing is that many of them have not performed one minute of true deacon's work. They have collected offerings during the worship service, they have kept records faithfully, and have accounted for these things before the elders; yet in all this something has been...