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aries. It is not reason that these few should leave the 

 word of God and serve tables. They, as the apostles, 

 have had a special training for ministering The "Word, 

 but there is this other work that must be done. It must 

 be done or there will be more than murmuring in the 

 Indian church. Let the church choose out from among 

 the non-theologically trained disciples, those having what 

 was called for in the Acts, men and women of honest re- 

 port, full of the Holy Ghost, and wisdom, educators, doc- 

 tors, engineers, farmers, nurses, teachers of domestic 

 science. These are not to supplant the preacher, they are 

 to supplement him, to make his work more effective and 

 far reaching, to conserve that which the preacher began. 

 We frequently hear it stated that the evangelizing of the 

 whole world is the task of the whole church. Yet how 

 little provision the church has made for equipping and 

 sending forth any but the theologically trained. If we 

 call on these non-theologically trained we are widening 

 the scope of those actively engaged in winning the whole 

 world. And if we really believe that a person is better 

 off with Christ than without Him, we will do our utmost 

 to use all the gifts with which He has endowed His fol- 

 lowers. The Apostle Paul, I. Cor. 12, speaks of the 

 diversity of gifts of believers, but the same Spirit con- 

 trolling and directing this diversity, so that, as the re- 

 sult of the perfect and complete working of the various 

 members, we get a harmony as complete as a healthy 

 body where every organ is functioning properly. He 

 sums up with irrefutable logic, the great mystery of 

 our faith, "Now ye are the body of Christ and members 

 in particular. And God hath set some in the church, 

 first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, 

 after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, govern- 



