Faith and Practice

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Part IV: Appendix

Chapter 1—Historical Statements

Section 1—Excerpt from Indiana Discipline

A. Queries for Ministers and Elders

1. Are ministers and elders diligent in the attendance of meetings for worship and discipline; and concerned to encourage their families to that religious duty?

2. Are ministers, in the exercise of their gifts, careful to wait for divine ability? and are they sound in word and doctrine?

3. Are ministers and elders in unity one with another, and with the meetings to which they belong? manifesting a religious concern for the advancement of truth, and the support of our discipline?

4. Are ministers and elders good examples in uprightness, temperance, and moderation, and careful to train up their families in plainness of dress and simplicity of manners, becoming our religious profession?