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title: 'Our Church Policy — Shall It Be Progress or Petrifaction?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'James Addison Quarles, Sr.'
date: 1881-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Presbyterian Polity'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 6'
- 'Philippians 1'
- 'Nehemiah 10'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/quarles-1881-our-church-policy-shall-it-be-progress-or-petrifaction
---

# Our Church Policy — Shall It Be Progress or Petrifaction?

Examines Presbyterian church policy and the diaconate. Argues deacons are distinct officers charged with financial/secular duties, grounded in Scripture and tradition.

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