The Office of All Believers

In our previous article we attempted to disprove the proposition to the effect that, in the event the be­lievers join themselves to the Church as institution, the office of believers remains non-institutional. Let us now enter upon a more positive development of the matter. In doing so we adhere to the following scheme: (1) The signification of the term office; (2) The office of believer; (3) The character of this office; (4) The particular office (that of minister of the gospel, of elder and...