THE

DEACONSHIP:

ITS NATURE, QUALIFICATIONS, RELATIONS,
AND DUTIES.

BY R. B. C. HOWELL, D.D.

PASTOR OF THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH, RICHMOND, VA.

"thor of "The Terms of Communion at the Lord's Table."

"They that have used the office of a Deacon well, purchase to
themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which
is in Christ Jesus."
1 TIM. iii. 13.

Sixth Thousand.

Philadelphia:

AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY,

118 ARCH STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by

W. W. KEEN,

Treasurer of the American Baptist Publication Society, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

George Charles, Stereotyper,
King & Baird, Printers,

No. 9 George Street, Philadelphia.

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University

6-11-1930

DEDICATION.

To the Deacons of all the Baptist churches throughout the United States of America, this little volume is respectfully dedicated, by their obliged brother,

THE AUTHOR.