" These two rules, duly made known and followed up,
would constitute a regular and effectual system of
Ghurch discipline with adults, even as the rules about



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sponsors, catechizing, and Confirmation would secure a
complete Church education for children. Let there be
a religious and living sense of Church authority, and
the work of discipline, as well as of doctrine, is done
for us/'

But to return to the spiritual letters. Their tone is
always this, " I am a very bad person for you to have come
to ; I have had little experience and little knowledge. I
need your prayers and forgiveness much more than you
need mine, and whatever I say, you must see if it is right
and then act upon it." But this is not the whole ; he
always goes on to stay himself upon the Presence of
Christ and His promise to be with His ministers. The
thought of the Atonement braces him to fresh effort.
