Nearly every man had a New Testament title — deacon, teacher, priest, elder, “seventy,” or bishop. Each title carried a certain rank, progression from lower to higher being dependent upon a man’s faith, his zeal for the church, and die good* See Doctrine and Covenants, Section 42, and Ezra Booth: “Letter No. 8,” republished in Howe: Mormonism Unvailed, p. 216. will of his superiors in the hierarchy. Each convert had not only the dignity of a title but the duties attending it. He was expected to work strenuously for the church, and he did. His only recompense, and it was ample, was a conviction
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