A superintendent must be a man above reproach, only once married, temperate, sensible, a man of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

The assistants must be only once married, and manage their children and their households well.

Besides, as they go about from house to house they learn to be idle, and not only idle but gossips and busybodies, and talk of things they ought not to mention.

Some men's sins are perfectly evident, and lead them right on to judgment, but there are others whose sins only dog their steps.

is a conceited, ignorant person, with a morbid craving for speculations and arguments which result only in envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions,

and mutual irritation between people of depraved minds, who are lost to the truth and think of religion only as a means of gain.

which will be brought about in his own time by the blessed, only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,