ABSTRACT
Circumstances have latterly drawn the attention of many Christians to the question of the competency of believers to form Churches after the model of the primitive Churches, and have led to the inquiry whether the forming of such bodies is at this time agreeable to the will of God. Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organizing of Churches is according to God’s will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist. To acknowledge the World to be the Church, or to pretend to again set up the Church are two things equally condemned and unauthorised by the word. A point of the utmost importance, which they who wish to organize Churches, seem to have altogether lost sight of, is that there is such a thing as power, and that the Holy Spirit alone hath the power to gather and build up the Church.
