---
title: 'The Office of Deacon'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas Smyth'
date: 1848-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Ecclesiology'
- 'Presbyterian Polity'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 6'
- 'Romans 12'
- 'Philippians 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/smyth-1848-the-office-of-deacon
---

# The Office of Deacon

Reflection on ten years after the 1838 Presbyterian disruption and a treatise urging revival of the deaconship (including deaconesses), clarifying deacons’ duties and distinction from elders.

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