R., what names would you substitute for _members_ and _membership_ ?" _Mr.R._ "THE CHILDREN OF THE CHURCH;" for you have it in the last sentence of the extract which you read from Morton;--the true, the most appropriate, and, in every respect, the best name for those who are so ambiguously called _members_.
_Mr.B._ There is great beauty and sweetness in that name, I confess,--"the children of the church," "the church's children." _Mr.R._ A father never, except for concealment, says, "a member of my family," when "a child" is meant.

The term _members_, besides being equivocal, and requiring explanation, is not so good as "children of the church," an expression which includes and covers all that any would claim for "infant church-members." _Mr.C._ I confess, I like Br.

R.'s views and proposition.

If, by calling the offspring of believers, "the children of the church," we, by implication, abridged any of their privileges, or if, by calling them church-members, we believed that they acquired rights and privileges not otherwise appertaining to them, we ought to prefer the words member and membership; but it is not so.

No one of the writers cited,--and the proofs we all know could be extended by quoting from other authors,--claims the right of a child to full communion, except upon evidence, in his "trial and examination," that he is regenerate.