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WAS HE RIPE?

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 15, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 35.

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WAS HE RIPE?

By Editor

It is said that the oldest Baptist church in Indiana has the following curious items on its records: "A motion was made that the mind of the church be taken whether Brother Scott is ripe for ordination or not." That motion, however, strangely as it is worded, is in the line of the Scripture precept, "Lay hands suddenly on no man." We know of some brethren who have received ordination although they were manifestly unripe.—The Canadian Baptist.