In that valuable work on “Church Fellowship,” by Mr. W. Jeyes Styles, the writer thus defines the office of deacon:—“Deacons are honorary servants of the Church, who, for Christ’s sake, and love to His cause, attend to all temporal matters, and thus leave their pastor more free to pursue his high and holy calling”; and our author further adds on “The Ideal Deacon” (Note XI, p. 147):—“It is clear that Deacons must not only be in fellowship with the Church, but men well known for the spirituality of their religion, the consistency of their lives, their adherence to the doctrines of the Gospel, and their manifested fitness for the work.”