“RULE IX.—He is to be faithful in attending the services of his own church, except in cases of sickness or disinclination.
“RULE X.—It must be his constant aim to reach Heaven by traveling diligently on a way wide enough to hold the attention and respect of an enlightened age.
“These are our general rules. We have several thousand regulations covering every phase or avenue of life.”
“What I have just now heard are certainly not as iron-clad as the rules of my church. Nothing is said of conversion, or spirituality, or of the Holy Spirit, or of the other Persons of the Trinity,” commented Miss Church-Member.
“No, not of anything that is antiquated or, in other words, ‘out of date.’ The main church on earth must deal with practical things.”
“What do you call ‘conversion’ in your church, or do you not believe in it?”
“Beyond any doubt we believe in conversion. Just as soon as a person confesses his faith in our general rules he is converted, and is at once a good Christian. The Bible says that if one will only believe he is safe: or ‘saved already’ as the true Greek rendering has it.”
“Then you hold to the Bible strictly?”
“We are the only church that does really and truly hold to the Bible. We believe and teach it as it is preserved for the ages in the original Hebrew and Greek.”
“But I notice that many of your rules seem to be at variance with certain parts of the Bible,” she boldly declared.