8. If the case be one of flagrant immorality, by which the reputation of the body is compromised and the Christian name scandalized, on being proved or confessed, the hand of fellowship may be at once withdrawn from the offender, notwithstanding any confessions and promises of amendment; but not without a trial. The church's good name and the honor of religion demand this testimony against evil. He may be subsequently restored, if suitably penitent. NOTE 1.--All discipline should be conducted in the spirit of Christian meekness and love, with a desire to remove offenses and win offenders. It must also be done under a deep sense of responsibility to maintain the honor of Christ's name, the purity of His church, and the integrity of His truth. NOTE 2.--If any member shall persist in bringing a private grievance before the church, or otherwise make it public before he has pursued the course prescribed in the eighteenth chapter of Matthew, he becomes himself an offender, and subject to the discipline of the body. NOTE 3.--When private difficulties exist among members which they cannot, or will not settle, the church should consider them as public offenses, and as such dispose of them, rather than suffer the perpetual injury which they inflict. Note 4.--When a member refers to the church any private difficulty, which he has been unable to settle, he must submit it wholly to the disposition of the body, and abide by its decision. If he attempts to revive and prosecute it beyond the decision of the church, he becomes an offender, and subject to discipline. NOTE 5.--Any member tried by the church has the right to receive copies of all charges against him, the names of his accusers, and the witnesses, both of whom he shall have the privilege of meeting face to face, hearing their statements, bringing witnesses on his side, and answering for himself before the body. NOTE 6.--Every member on trial or excluded, shall have furnished at his request, authentic copies of all proceedings had by the church in his case, officially certified. NOTE 7.--No member under discipline can have the right to bring any person, not a member, before the church as his advocate, except by consent of the body. NOTE 8.--In every case of exclusion, the charges against the member, and the reasons for his exclusion, should be accurately entered on the records of the church. NOTE 9.--If at any time it shall become apparent, or seem probable to the church that it has for any reason dealt unjustly with a member, or excluded him without sufficient cause, it should at once, and without request by concession and restoration, so far as possible, repair the injury it has done him. NOTE 10.--The church should hold itself bound to restore to its fellowship an excluded member when, ever he gives satisfactory evidence of repentance and reformation consistent with godliness.