The Calling of the Minister of the Gospel * (1)

*Address delivered on the occasion of the graduation of Candidate James Howerzyl. Christ gave to his Church key power, that is, the right and duty to preach the gospel and to excommunicate out of the Christian church. The church, that is, the church as institute, is the only organization on the face of the earth that administers the word, preaches the Gospel, officially. There are other organizations and institutions, several of them, that make it their business to instruct men out of the...