Our Church Order: Leave of Absence (Article 14)

If any minister, for the aforesaid or any other reason, is compelled to discontinue his service for a time, which shall not take place without the advice of the Consistory, he shall nevertheless at all times be and remain subject to the call of the congregation. The circumstance that occasioned the drafting and adoption of this article was the following: during the period of persecution in the Netherlands, ministers would sometimes be compelled to discontinue the serv­ice because the flock had...