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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

On the benefits of a well functioning diaconate to the minister

He feels, that amid all his own difficulties and discouragements, he is not standing alone—that other are alive to his circumstances, and sympathise with him, and are forward to aid him—and that he can have their advice and cooperation in many matters, which are otherwise fitted to distract and to burden.

John Lorimer
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