devoutly hope and pray they may
come to be called.

_Mr. A._ Seeing that the use of the term _member_ keeps before our minds
a theoretical, hard necessity, from which every one shrinks, I think I
will alter my sermon so far as to dismiss the term, and, with it, all
sense of inconsistency in neglected obligations as to disciplining these
young "members."

"Well, Br. A.," said Mr. B., "I will join you in submission."

"So will I," said Mr. C. "How good it is to be convinced, and to give up
one's own will; is it not?"

"It ought to be," said Mr. A., "to those whose great business it is to
preach submission. But I think we did not differ at first, except as to
the use of terms."

_Mr. T._ I wish to make a confession. Though I have always been of Br.
R.'s opinion, I have felt it to be invidious, and, for several reasons,
disagreeable, to call a meeting of "the children of the church,"--making
a distinction between them and the other children of my pastoral charge.
Am I correct in such views and feelings?

"Come, Mr. Chairman," said Mr. A., "we have not paid you sufficient
deference, I fear; for we have hardly kept order, in addressing one
another, and not through you. Now, please to speak for us, and tell us
what you think of Br. T.'s difficulty."

_Mr. C._ I have sinned with you, as to keeping order, if there has been
any transgression; but I have been so much interested and instructed,
that I forgot my preeminence over you. But to Br. T., I would say, There
is a church; and it means something, and something of infinite
importance. All our labors have this for their end, to make men
qualified for worthy church-membership, on earth, and in heaven,--the
conditions of admission here and there, as we hold, being essentially
the same. This church, which we thus build up, has children, call them
what we may, the objects of God's peculiar love. On that topic I need
not dwell. We ought to pay some marks of special regard to these
children, for God has done so. As to its being invidious, it is not more
invidious than to address our congregations as partly Christians, and
partly unconverted; or to invite the unconverted to meetings especially
designed for them. Meetings of the children of my church, called by me,
and addressed by me, never fail to make very deep impressions upon the
young, upon their parents, upon other children, and upon the parents of
those children. Another form of effecting the same desirable ends, is,
t