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94 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES judged the people at all seasons : the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. ' ' ' Later, when choosing seventy elders to share with him the responsibilities of leadership, Moses was careful to select, as his helpers, men possessing dignity, sound judgment, and experience. In his charge to these elders at the time of- their ordination, he outlined some of the qualifications that fit a man to be a wise ruler in the church. "Hear the causes between jowc brethren,'' said Moses, "and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's." ^ King David, toward the close of his reign, delivered a solemn charge to those bearing the burden of the work of God in his day. Summoning to Jerusalem "all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men," the aged king solemnly charged them, "in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the Lord, and in the audience of our God," to "keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God."' ^Ex. 18:19-26. « Dent. 1 :16, 17. ^ Chron. 28 :1, 8.