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.”