<TITLE>03. Par 13-17</TITLE>L-13   The deacons is the one that--that has to meet this opposition, or this problem, rather; because that in the Bible when the dispute come up about food and clothing, and so forth, in the Book of Acts, they called the apostles in about it, and they said, "Go look out for yourself seven man of honest report and full of the Holy Ghost that they might attend to these things, because we will give ourself continually to the Word of God and in prayer."

L-14 And it isn't the pastor's duty to look out to the... for the food and so forth. That's supposed to be by the deacons. It isn't the trustees, it is the deacons office to do this. And then this should be... Remember in the Bible, they was contributing to their own, the Greeks and the--and the Jewish, where the argument come up that one was getting a little more than the other, but it was people who had sold all their goods and had give it into the church for its support, and then to--to be divided out among them equally. And there was a little dispute come up, and there's where we got our first deacons. And that's one of their duties, is to do that.

L-15   I think that, as our own, as our own people, we should take care of them. And it should be turned in, any complaint, to the chairman of the deacon board, and then it should be met by the deacon board and see what they're able to do about it. And all of those things which is clothing, and food, and financial help, or whatever it is, should come through the deacons. Then the deacons, when they decide that they are--that they are... what they're going to do about it, then it should be presented then unto the--the treasurer, to see if the treasurer is able at this time to pay this certain amount of finance, or--or buy these clothing, or whatever it is to that. But the--the deacon board should meet on that, and it doesn't go to the trustees or to the pastor. It's a deacons' thing, altogether.
15a        Now, then, question number two.
Is it sufficient to say openly from the pulpit that tongues and interpretations should be done in a meeting before the service?
That's the second question on this slip of paper that I have here, which is a little card.

L-16 Now, this would be pertaining to the pastor here, see. Because he--he, after all, over the spiritual part, he's the head of that. Deacons are policemen in the church, to keep order and to take care of these things, and feeding the poor, and so forth. The trustees are over the finance and the building, and that's what they are to look after. But the pastor is over the--the supervising of the spiritual part, and this would go to you, Brother Neville.

L-17   Now, there... sometime ago when the order was set, the church. I do believe in speaking in tongues, and interpretation, and all the fine spiritual gifts that's ordained of God to be in the church. But we are living in a day just like it was in the Bible time, where the churches... Now, you notice Paul, he founded the church at Ephesus, the Ephesian church, which was a well-established church. Did you notice? We believe that Paul, and did say so himself, that he spoke with many tongues, and we know that he had gifts of tongues. Not ones that he had learned, but those who were spiritually given to him, because how he speaks it in Corinthians there. And to save time, I'm not just turning in the Bible and reading it for you, because it would make our--our stay here too long tonight, as I don't have too much time. And now... but just so that you could openly see.


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