operate against
the fascinating allurements of the world, or to the end proposal._

I Purpose now to suggest, as briefly as I can, such opinions, as, if
adopted, might possibly operate as remedies to some of the evils which
have been described. In doing this I am aware of the difficulties that
await me. I am sensible that I ought not to be too sanguine as to the
result of all my observations upon this subject and yet, I cannot but
think, that I may be successful in some of them. Arduous, however, as
the task, and dubious as my success may be, I am encouraged, on the
prospect of being but partially useful, to undertake it.

On the first of the original and immediate causes which have been
mentioned, I mean mixed marriages, I shall have but little to say. I do
not see how it is possible, while the society means to keep up a due
subordination among its members, not to disown such as may marry out of
it. In mixed families, such as these marriages produce, it is in vain to
expect that the discipline can be carried on, as has been shewn in the
second volume. And, without this discipline, the society would hardly
keep up, in the extensive manner it does, the character of a moral
people. I think, however, that some good might be done by regulations to
be universally observed. Thus they, who are deputed to inform the
disowned of their exclusion from membership, should be of the most
amiable temper and conciliatory manners. Every unqualified person should
be excluded from these missions. Permission should be solicited for both
the married persons to be present on such occasions. It is difficult to
estimate the good effect which the deputed, if of sweet and tender
dispositions, or the bad effects which the deputed, if of cold and
austere manners, might have upon those they visited, or what bias it
might give the one in particular, who had never been in membership, for
or against the society. Permission also might be solicited, even when
the mission was over for future friendly opportunities or visits, which
would shew in the society itself a tender regard and solicitude for the
welfare of its former members. It is not at all improbable, from the
impression which such apparent regard and solicitude might occasion,
that the children of the visited, though not members, might be brought
up in the rules of membership. And finally it appears to me to be
desirable, that the disowned, if they should give proof by their own
lives and t