The Graces of a Good Deacon
R.C. Reed on the patient character of a good deacon.
By Tim Hopper
1-min read
To avoid friction between members, to promote happy pastorates, and to develope the grace of liberality, nothing is more important than a good deacon, one who can be patient, who can smile at unreasonable people, and speak a soft word to turn away wrath, one who is willing to give time and take trouble on himself, and make himself ‘all things to all men’.
— R.C. Reed, The Deacon (1903)