Book Description

Excerpt from The Church Member's Guide and Complete Church Manual The publishers of this little book long since encountered the need for a manual for the use of churchmembers and others actively engaged in church work, particularly in the Southern states. While it is true that the various churches have their handbooks, they are not in such form as t Obe of much value to the average member of church, being either too formal in their language or to Otechnical to be followed readily. Experience has shown that a small volume, giving in concise, easily understood terms the history and doctrine of the various denominations, their different methods of church government, their equally different manners of observing the ordinances of The Lords Supper and Baptism, forms for conducting business meetings, the duties of churchmembers in the official work of the church, proper rules for holding prayer meetings and all other sorts of meetings, and items of useful information pertaining to church work, is a great and crying need. Probably seven out o-f every ten churchmembers are ignorant of their faiths history and not sufficiently conversant with its doctrines. At least, so the writer has found in gathering data for this volume. To fill these wants the following pages have been prepared, the publishers knowing that their labor cannot fail to bring the congregation closer to the pastor, if the latter will suggest to his people the purchase and study of the book. 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.