All our labors have this for their end, to make men qualified for worthy church-membership, on earth, and in heaven,--the conditions of admission here and there, as we hold, being essentially the same.

This church, which we thus build up, has children, call them what we may, the objects of God's peculiar love.

On that topic I need not dwell.

We ought to pay some marks of special regard to these children, for God has done so.

As to its being invidious, it is not more invidious than to address our congregations as partly Christians, and partly unconverted; or to invite the unconverted to meetings especially designed for them.