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NOTE TO BRO. LOUGHBOROUGH

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 7, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 19, No. 6.

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NOTE TO BRO. LOUGHBOROUGH.

By A. S. Hutchins

DEAR BROTHER: We learn that Philip, one of the seven deacons of Acts vi, was also a preacher [chap. viii, 5], and called an evangelist. Chap. xxi, 8. Do you understand that it was by virtue of his office as a deacon that he preached, or was he ordained an evangelist before or after he was chosen deacon? If by virtue of his deaconship he preached and baptized, is here not an example where the duties of the deacon were not confined exclusively to the temporal matters of the church? A. S. HUTCHINS.