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Show DO YOU? In the "Life" of the Methodist Bishop Joyce appears the following passage: "Committees of laymen were always received with kindness and given a fair hearing. Yet a course was pursued which was calculated to make churches careful about whom they appointed to represent their interests. He was accustomed to ask church committees two or three questions which sometimes proved embarrassing. Such as: "Do you attend regularly the services of the church, including prayer meeting? Do you have family prayers? Do you stand by the pastor in his revival re-vival work? Do you take the church paper? If the committee could not answer hese questions with some degree of satisfaction, the bishop would decline to hear them, telling them kindly but firmly, firm-ly, that they were not. proper persons to be intrusted in-trusted with the selection of a pastor." ? Do you take the church paper? |