Excerpt from The Ruling Eldership of the Christian Church The usefulness of our elders has often been pro longed in their families. Many of their children, enjoying the best of examples and training, have done credit to their parentage in their own good behaviour and success. As respects the church more especially, it might create surprise to learn how many of its elders are the sons of elders, and to what a large extent the roll of our ministry has derived its supplies fi'om the same source. Such remarks dis pose for commendation rather than for counsel, and fill with gratitude to Him who hath so cared for his church, in providing it with office-bearers after his own heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.