In that short period were no precautionary measures
employed to prevent, might the cause of God become
extinct. The church however will live : the gates of
death will not prevail : but it will be continued, as seed
time and harvest are continued, by appropriate enter-
prise, for that purpose. This enterprise is to be direct*
ed, primarily, to the education of the children of the
church, and of such others, as are voluntarily committed
to her care. To every church is committed the super-
intendence of that education of children, upon which
her continued existence depends. As fellow workers
with God, the members of every local church are bound
to raise .up another generation of believers to serve him



ivheh they are dead ; and no church has answered the
end of her existence, which does not accomplish this.
