Ministering In Institutions Of Mercy

Historical Background Originally Article 6 read quite differently from its present form in our Church Order. Persons engaged in the ministry of the Word in the manor of any ruler or baron shall be properly and lawfully called as the others, subscribe to the Confession and the Church Order, and appoint the ablest of the group they serve to the offices of elder and of deacon. Reference is made in the original Article 6 to a "manor." A manor was a district over which a feudal lord or baron held...