"The Church of Jesus Christ, sir. Don't you think it would be well if He also had a church in your midst?"
"Why, my friend, they all belong to Him."
"Is it possible? I certainly have no recollection of hearing you even mention His name in connection with any of them."
"You may not have heard His name, but they are all, yes, even the parading and noise-making Salvation Army, engaged in His service."
"Then why not bear His name?"
"It is a case in which the name need not be connected with the object, and still the service rendered and the objects aimed at are all for Him, as certainly all who engage in the calling of Christianity believe, and as those who practice in the ministry instruct."
"Let us see how this is. Your church members believe in the Lord Jesus, accept the word of God as an exposition of His principles, as well as a command to them, and the ministers instruct them accordingly. Is that so?"
"It is."
"Then I am to understand that all these churches and communicants uphold and practice baptism by immersion as set forth in, and enjoined by, the scriptures."
"No; that is to say, some do, and some do not."