Should not the majority rule in a Baptist church? No, not a bare majority, when there are opposing convictions on the part of a large minority. What should rule is the mind of the Spirit. What indicates his mind is the gradual unification of conviction and opinion on the part of the whole body in support of some definite plan, so that the whole church moves together. The large church has the advantage over the small church in that the single crotchety member cannot do so much harm. One man in a small boat can easily upset it, but not so in the great ship. Patient waiting, persuasion, and prayer, will ordinarily win over the recalcitrant. It is not to be denied, however, that patience may have its limits, and that unity may sometimes need to be purchased by secession and the forming of a new local church whose members can work harmoniously together. (_b_) From the responsibility of the whole church for maintaining pure doctrine and practice. _1 Tim. 3:15_—“_the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth_”; _Jude 3_—“_exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints_”; _Rev. 2_ and _3_—exhortations to the seven churches of Asia to maintain pure doctrine and practice. In all these passages, pastoral charges are given, not by a so‐called bishop to his subordinate priests, but by an apostle to the whole church and to all its members. In _1 Tim. 3:15_, Dr. Hort would translate “_a pillar and ground of the truth_”—apparently referring to the local church as one of many. _Eph. 3:18_—“_strong to apprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth._” Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante, in N. A. Rev., Nov. 1892—“Truth is many‐ tongued. What one man failed to speak, another finds Another word for. May not all converge, In some vast utterance of which you and I, Fallopius, were but the halting syllables?” Bruce, Training of the Twelve, shows that the Twelve probably knew the whole O. T. by heart. Pandita Ramabai, at Oxford, when visiting Max Müller, recited from the Rig Veda _passim_, and showed that she knew more of it by heart than the whole contents of the O. T. (_c_) From the committing of the ordinances to the charge of the whole church to observe and guard. As the church expresses truth in her teaching, so she is to express it in symbol through the ordinances.