RECEIVING MEMBERS.—A NEW FEATURE—
A well known minister of the Central Ohio Conference, recently in receiving several persons into full connection, after putting the usual disciplinary questions, said: "I have now, my friends, to put one question to you not found in our Book of Discipline. It is a plain—a very plain and pointed question; will you give of your means, as God has prospered you, to the support of the Gospel—the ministry, the cause of missions, etc.?" The question, we are told, was affectionately and earnestly put, and the response in each case was, "I will." Is not such a course wise and politic? and if judiciously pursued, would it not start new ideas in the minds of many of those whom we receive into Church fellowship?—Ob. Evangelist.