Family Visitation (The History)

This article was written by Rev. G. VandenBerg in the January 15, 1956 issue of the Standard Bearer. __________ The twenty-third article of our church order states that one of the duties of the office of elder is “to visit the families of the congregation, in order particularly to comfort and instruct the members, and also to exhort others in respect to the Christian religion.” The original rendering of this was much more explicit. It read as follows: “They (the elders) shall faithfully...