On last Communion Day there were received into the Mother Church two hundred and ninety-seven new members. This makes a total membership of about eighteen hundred. This membership represents almost every section of this country, and many parts of Canada and Europe.
We are sometimes asked, What benefit is to be derived from joining the Mother Church? How does it help absent members who cannot personally attend its services? Why is not membership of our local society or church sufficient?
In answer to such inquiries, we would recommend the careful re-perusal of the sermon of Rev. D. A. Easton, the pastor of the Mother Church, which was published in the June number of the Journal. Cogent reasons are there given for joining the Mother Church. Permit us to repeat by way of emphasis what seems to us to be not only a good, but an all-sufficient reason for joining the Mother Church
