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Toronto; Montreal; Halifax, 1882. – 78 p.
It is a common and natural desire when a man appears before the public in the printed page, to explain the reasons. The Author of this essay has written and published, because of the pressure of a conviction that the subject of it needs to be studied by the people of the Church to which he belongs. He has marked with regret a disposition to ignore the importance of Christian fellowship to the individual Christian; and he has heard many statements as to the relation which it bears to the proper conditions of Church membership, which he believes were made through misconception of what the New Testament teaches on this subject. The views thus expressed tend very directly to make those who hold them feel that the conditions of membership in the Methodist Church are purely arbitrary ;and in their application necessarily exclude some who have a right to membership, according to their ideas.
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MEMBERSHIP;
CHURCH
OR,
THE
MEMBERSHIP
CHURCH
METHODIST
COMPARED.
AND
EXAMINED
BY
BOND,
S.
Methodist Minister
Montreal
of the
TORONTO
MONTREAL
:
C. W.
Conference.
:
BRIGGS,
WILLIAM 78 "
AND
TESTAMENT
NEW
OF
CONDITIONS
80
King
Strbkt
East
HALIFAX
COATES.
1882.
:
S. F. HUESTIS.
PREFACE.
It is a
the
common
desire when
and natural
a
man
pears ap-
before the public in the printed page, to explain The Author reasons. of this essay has written
a conviction and published, because of the pressure of that the of it needs to be studied by the people subject
of the Church a
with regret
he
to which
He
belongs.
has marked
the importance
disposition to ignore
of
Christian fellowship to the individual Christian ; and he has heard
as
statements
many
to the relation which
it bears to the proper conditions of Church he
which
believes
the
of what
were
The views thus expressed those who
through
made
Testament
New
membership,
teaches
tend
very
misconception on
this
directly to make
feel that the conditions of membership
hold them
in the Methodist
Church
are
purely arbitrary ;
and in their application necessarily exclude
have
a
right to membership,
Believing that
a
correct
evidence afforded by the New such feelings,and to highly
subject.
some
according to their ideas. knowledge
now
Testament,
they
is the
of what
would
lead these persons, and many
prize what
who
shun,
remove
others,
I have
here
PREFACE.
IV
sought to present on
a
this interesting,but neglected
is the writer's
discuss the
excuse
of subject
thus
publicly to
the following
pages.
Whether
his justifies subject,
determine, if they wish. of the teaching more
subject.This object
for presuming
th