they are building a chapel they would not
take the money of an unconverted man. If they were collecting
subscriptions for the sending out Evangelists, for the printing of
religious books and tracts, for the support of a Christian ministry, they
would refuse those of worldly men. More logical or more consistent in
small matters, they make no provision in their books of praise for the
unconverted man. I find in their hymn-book no one verse in the whole
volume is designed to be sung simply by the unconverted. Their hymns are
for those who, having the spirit of adoption, cry, Abba Father! It is
proper, says the writer of the preface to the volume to which I refer, it
is proper for convicted sinners, who do not know the way, to seek
salvation, but they are not called to sing their sorrow, much less are
Christians called to unite with them. Again, he tells us the unconverted
have no need to sing prayers for pardon. What then, I may ask, are they
to do? The answer is that, they may stand and listen and be sung at, as
well as preached at. Mr. King, the writer already quoted, says, "Though
there are not hymns for the unconverted to sing, there are appeals to the
unconverted to be sung by the church." Practically, however, the
arrangement differs little from that of other churches. A book is put
into your hands, and the chances are, people who are in the habit of
singing sing. As only immersed adults are Christians, it is not clear
what the young people who attend their service are; that they sing I can,
however, testify. It is to be feared that the Campbellites are not
exempt from the faults of all religious worship, as manifested in
strength of expression. If men and women believed what they say or sing
in all our churches and chapels, little would remain for us but the
Millennium.

The Campbellites do seek to guard against this danger. It is the Church
that sings. It is the Church that worships. All Christian worship is in
Scripture confined to Christians, and necessarily so, for worship offered
by any one else is not Christian. Thus it is only on the faithful in
Christ Jesus that the various items of Christian worship are enjoined:
they are profaned and prostituted when applied to any others. In the
morning of the Sabbath the Church meets by itself to break bread and sing
and pray; on such occasions the members exhort and edify one another. In
the evening the service is of a more general character; appeals