Our Church Order (Article 6)

No Minister shall be at liberty to serve in institutions of mercy or otherwise, unless he is previously admitted in accordance with the preceding articles, and he shall, no less than others, be subject to the Church Order. What we deal with here is a revision by the Chris­tian Reformed churches. The original article reads: "No minister shall be at liberty to accept a service in any particular manor or hospital . . . ." So, then, the original reading makes mention of manor. A manor was a...