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Excerpt from The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 54: January, 1889
To this result I believe two causes chicfly contribute. The first of these is the fact that we have no actual share or interest in the doings of the church. [f a business meeting of the members is requested it is not understood that the presence of student members is desired. In the most important matters of church government we have no voice at all. By this I would not be understood as necessarily claiming that we should have a voice, for the suggestion that we should ourselves, for example, select our next college pastor would, doubtless, seem a startling one. But I do say that to be a member of a church mod elled apparently on Congregational forms of polity, and be one of the majority whose Opinion seems to be as im material and undesired as it is unknown, does not tend to increase one's sense of the reality of the bond or to de ve10p zeal in its service. Even that first and least duty which we owe - oi giving money, does not find its chan nels of expression here, and on the rare occasions when the contribution plate passes down the aisle it is to receive its dollars from the faculty and dimes from the students. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.