The Office of the Elder

"The office of the elders, in addition to what was said in Article 16 to be their duty in common with the minister of the Word. is to take heed that the ministers, together with their fellow elders and the deacons, faithfully discharge their office, and both before and after the Lord's Supper, as time and circumstances may demand, for the edification of the churches; to visit the families of the congregation, in order particularly to comfort and instruct the members, and also to exhort others...