od conversation I had no reason to doubt, I gave
a testimony under my own hand, by writing their name on a ticket
prepared for that purpose. Those who bore these tickets, wherever
they came, were acknowledged by their brethren, and were received
with all cheerfulness. These tickets also supplied us with a quiet
and inoffensive method of removing any disorderly member. He has no
ticket at the quarterly visitation (for so often the tickets are
changed); and hereby it is immediately known that he is no longer
of the community.

It was at length required by a minute of the Conference, (as our own
discipline enjoins,) that a preacher should not give a ticket of
membership to any person who did not meet in class. In our own
Discipline, in the section on class-meetings, will also be found the
following question and answer:--

_Question._--What shall be done with those members of our church
who wilfully and repeatedly neglect their class?

_Answer._--1. Let the chairman, or one of the preachers, visit them
whenever it is practicable, and explain to them the consequence if
they continue to neglect, viz., exclusion.

2. If they do not attend, let him who has charge of the circuit
exclude them (in the church), showing that they are laid aside for
a breach of our rules of discipline, and not for immoral conduct.

By this added ministerial authority and duty, a condition of membership
in the society is imposed which is not contained in the General Rules,
and which subjects a member to exclusion, for that which is acknowledged
to be "not immoral conduct."

This appears a strange regulation in even a private religious society
within a Church; but no objection could be reasonably made to any such
regulation in such a society, if its members desired it, and as it would
not affect their Church membership. But the case is essentially
different, when such society in a Church becomes a Church, and exercises
the authority of admitting into, and excluding from the Church itself,
and not merely a society in the Church.

In England, and especially in the United States and Canada, the Wesleyan
Societies have become a Church. I have repeatedly shewn in past years,
that they have become organized into a Church upon both Wesleyan and
scriptural grounds. I believe the Wesleyan Church in Canada is second to
no other in the scriptural authority of its ministry and o