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Baptist Ministers Debate Pastoral Vacations

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 5, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 2.

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Baptist Ministers Debate Pastoral Vacations

The Baptist ministers of New York City discussed the subject of ministerial vacations the other day, and the practice got some pretty hard knocks. One speaker, however, thought that the deacons might visit the sick and bury the dead, and let the pastors take a rest once in a while. Deacons don't have much to do, he said, and there is no law, human or divine, against deacons making themselves useful. To which a big “Amen!” resounded.