We give a great many hints to ministers, it may not be amiss once in a while to give some to members. Here are a score—all but the last taken from the Telescope: 1. First of all be sure that your heart is at peace with God, and that the Holy Spirit bears witness of the same. A living membership makes a living church. 2. “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live in peace with all men.” A quarrelsome Christian is a tool of Satan. 3. Show to the world by conduct and conversation that you are interested in the church and religion. 4. Keep in your place. Get neither above it nor below it; and remember, too, that the judgment of your brethren is usually better than your own as to where your place is. 5. Be a worker wherever you are. Church-organizations are neither guest-chambers nor lounging-places; they are workshops. 6. Attend the house of God upon all occasions, whether it be the class-meeting, prayer-meeting, Sabbath-schools, or preaching service. There is always good there for your soul which will not come to you at home. 7. Do not visit on Sabbath, unless it is to talk on religious subjects and to pray. If you are visited, entertain your visitors in this way, and they will not be likely to trouble you again. 8. Pray much!—in your families every day, in your closet often, in your hearts “without ceasing.” 9. Receive your new minister, and make him feel that he is welcome, even though you would have chosen another man. Pay him well; pray for him much; invite people to your church to hear him; always speak well of him if you can, never ill of him if you can avoid it; and as faithful co-laborers with him, do all you can to hold up his hands. 10. Love your minister, but do not worship him; and when he is gone, do not think that God or religion is gone. Pin your faith to no man’s sleeve, but anchor it on God’s throne, and you are safe. 11. Pay liberally, at least one-tenth of your income to benevolent purposes. There are those in the church whom the weight of God’s gold and silver will sink into hell. 12. If you are a tobacco user, quit it and put its equivalent cost into a small box, and give the contents of this box to your minister as a donation. 13. Keep your churches cleanly and in good order, outside and inside (my ruminant brother, chew this awhile). It is a shame how some church-members sometimes defile the house of God. 14. Talk little of troubles in the church to people out of it. 15. Take your church-paper if you can. Know what your church is doing in the world. 16. Know what it is. Inform yourself of its doctrines and principles, and if you like them, be ready to defend them; if you don’t, go where you are better suited. 17. Be social, friendly, brotherly, with all Christians. Forbid none that cast out devils in the name of your Master. 18. Deal honestly, conscientiously, with all men in the affairs of this world; then you can hope to do them good. Do not take undue advantage of your worldly neighbor, and then go to church and pray God to have mercy on his soul. 19. Do these and as many other good things as you can think of, in the fear of God, for the love of Jesus, and you will grow in grace, be useful in your time, and receive the reward of a faithful servant at last. 20. If you do not file your paper, cut this out and put it where you may give it an occasional reading.