t of all these receipts. Then follow full directions for the care
and relief of the poor, the needy, the stranger, with a thoroughly
organized system for the whole work. The Deacons have nothing to do with
the general affairs of the congregation, but are charged with the care
of the poor and needy, and with this alone.

Chapter 5. Of the Office and Duties of the Comforter of the Sick, and
Sexton. The congregation shall have a Ziekentrooster, who shall also be
the Sexton (Koster en Knaap). The duties of this office are: Diligently
to visit the sick, especially such as are in need, and to bring to them
the comfort and directions of the Word of God. To give notice to the
Pastor of those who desire the sacrament. To report to the Deacons any
cases needing relief. To serve also as Sexton to the church. They shall
receive a proper salary from the Consistory.

Chapter 6. Of the Obligations of the Congregation to its Preachers,
Elders and Deacons. Chapter 7. Rules for those who receive alms from
the congregation.

In the articles on which the Preachers of the Augsburg Confession in
Amsterdam are called, and by which they are to be governed in their
whole office and ministrations, adopted in 1607, not only are all the
statements of doctrine given in the constitution repeated, but there is
this additional provision: "They shall, with good judgment and
reasonable prudence, exclude from the use of the Sacraments and of the
Ministrations of our Church, Papists, Anabaptists, Schwenkfelder,
Calvinists, New Manicheans or Flacianer, and all others, who not only
do not hold our doctrine, but also are an occasion of offence, and lead
away the simple and weak."

This Amsterdam constitution is one of the most carefully prepared, well
digested instruments of the kind ever produced, very full in all needed
provisions for the adminstration [tr. note: sic] of the affairs of the
congregation, and pervaded by a devout spirit; sound in the faith and
watchful of the life of Pastors, Officers and members. It well deserves
the prominent place it holds among the sources of Lutheran organization
in the New World.

_The London Constitution._--St. Mary's Church in the Savoy, was
organized in 1692 by the members of the older Hamburg church who lived
west of Temple Bar, and received from King William an old Jesuit chapel,
which stood on the ground which had belonged to the Duke of Savoy, which
was reconstructed in 1694; a new church was erected in the