It is liberality to allow every man the same liberty you enjoy, but a sham, a pretence and hypocrisy to recognize him as a preacher of Jesus, when you do not believe he is in Christ, and would not give him the right hand of fellowship and take him into the church. Nor is it _courtesy_ to receive such a man into the stand as a preacher, but _hypocrisy_. A man who is in Christ is a brother, and, if a preacher of Christ, may be received as such, in good faith. Such an one has a right to all the privileges of the body of Christ, by virtue of being in it. But the man who ignores the law of the King, and recognizes persons who are not in Christ as brethren, christians and preachers, instead of displaying a broad liberality, an extended charity, shows that he has no settled principles—that he disregards principles and law. Who ever thought a Mason or an Odd Fellow was discourteous for not recognizing a man as a Mason who did not belong to the order? Certainly no man of intelligence. They have their initiation, and without it you are not in the order, and they do not recognize you, charitably or uncharitably. PRAISE GOD BY SINGING. We never heard Dr. Knox announce a song to be sung in public, while we were with him in Prince Edward Island, when he did not say, distinctly and very audibly, “We will praise God by singing,” etc. This opens out with the right idea. How grand and sublime to _praise God_ in song! We ought to sing in worship, not for music, or even fine singing, but to _praise God_, to _worship_ the Lord our God as an act of _devotion_ to God. We ought not to enter into it with the heart set on _music_, either instrumental or any other sort, but on God and our gracious and merciful Lord Jesus the Christ. The words ought to be read frequently and a few words of comment on them, calling attention to the _sense_, the praises, thanksgiving and supplications. Then people who know not God will see, as many christians appear to fail to see, the propriety of the word in one of our hymns: “Let those refuse to sing who never knew our God.” It is a contradiction of all common sense of the very meaning of the worship in song, for those who never knew God, or who never even professed to be christians or tried to turn to God, to say nothing of vile characters, to attempt to enter in the worship in song.