The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer, M.A. / Rector of Thornhill, in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West

by John Armstrong

CLASSES.

As to classes, I still think that something like church fellowship is the grand desideratum of our Church. The Communion, which was originally intended for this, now completely fails. It is almost anything but the communion of saints. Private meetings, too, of a familiar, conversational, or expository kind, do not quite come up to the supposed point. There must be some enclosure—some hedge of separation, something which shall admit the apparently sincere inquirer and exclude the worldly—something, in fact, which shall “gather believers together out of the mass of the ungodly world.”