What confidence would we have in the preacher who would exchange pulpits with a priest of the Papacy, not only a member of the Romish Church, but made such before he knew there was a God, or a Savior, an idolater, or an unregenerated man? The book of God forbids the saints from keeping company with such a man, or eating with him, or to bid him God-speed. We can meet a Romish priest and treat him as a citizen, if he is one, a neighbor, or gentleman, but we do not know him as a preacher of Jesus, or as a teacher of saints, or as a Christian. He bears no such relations as these to us, and we recognize him in none of these relations. In the same way, any man made a member of the church without any faith, or before he knew there was a church, or even a God, or who has had water sprinkled on him for baptism, is not in the body of Christ, and we feel kindly toward him as a fellow-creature, as a citizen, neighbor or gentleman, if he is one, but we do not know him as a preacher of Jesus, nor a teacher in the kingdom at all. We can extend to him all the amenities and courtesies of life as a fellow-creature, citizen, neighbor, gentleman, etc., but we simply know him, not as a preacher of Jesus, or a teacher of the children of the kingdom. He is not in the kingdom, and is not the man to perform any service there. The first thing for him to do, is to submit to the divinely ordained process by which to enter the kingdom and become a citizen, according to the law of the Great King, and then he is ready to do any service for which he is qualified in the kingdom. But he can not work in the kingdom till he is in it, and it is a sham, a pretense and hypocrisy to act toward him as if he were in the kingdom, an insincerity before the people that leads to a false impression with some, and destroys the confidence with others.