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Oh Stephen, he was a real good deacon
And he was a man that did love Christ
He was really full of the Holy Ghost
And he did the very thing that is right
Right now we have some real good deacons
Then we have some deacons ain't right
All of the night some of them is sittin' for
Is to run around at night
A deacon, he must be a clean man
And he must live a mighty smooth life
He must have his children under good control
And be the husband of one wife
But instead of being the deacon
That he really ought to be
He won't put up with one honest woman
He will try to live with two or three
A man like that is in a bad fix
And he think he is doin' very well
And the devil has got him by the hand
Just a-leading him off in Hell
You read Paul's letter to Timothy
Those words does profit very much
If a man knows not how to take care of his own household
Well, he cannot care for God's church