_Mat. 28:19, 20_—“_Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them ... teaching them_”; _cf._ _Luke 24:33_—“_And they rose up that very hour ... found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with __ them_”; _Acts 1:15_—“_And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, and said (and there was a multitude of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty)_”; _1 Cor. 15:6_—“_then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once_”—these passages show that it was not to the eleven apostles alone that Jesus committed the ordinances. _1 Cor. 11:2_—“_Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you_”; _cf._ _23, 24_—“_for I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread; and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me_”—here Paul commits the Lord’s Supper into the charge, not of the body of officials, but of the whole church. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, therefore, are not to be administered at the discretion of the individual minister. He is simply the organ of the church; and pocket baptismal and communion services are without warrant. See Curtis, Progress of Baptist Principles, 299; Robinson, Harmony of Gospels, notes, § 170. (_d_) From the election by the whole church, of its own officers and delegates. In Acts 14:23, the literal interpretation of χειροτονήσαντες is not to be pressed. In Titus 1:5, “when Paul empowers Titus to set presiding officers over the communities, this circumstance decides nothing as to the mode of choice, nor is a choice by the community itself thereby necessarily excluded.” _Acts 1:23, 26_—“_And they put forward two ... and they gave lots for them; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles_”; _6:3, 5_—“_Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report ... And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, ... and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus_”—as deacons; _Acts 13:2, 3_—“_And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away._”