Excerpt from Catalogue of the Officers and Members of the Chapel St. Congregational Church: Together With the Confession of Faith, Covenant, and Standing Rules, January 1, 1861 IV. - This Church does not recognize any Ecclesiastical Court except a particular Church as of divine appointment. \vhen our Savior gives the law in the case of private offences, he says relative to an offending brother, but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican. As Christ has not commanded or authorized any appeal to a higher court in this case, and as he has mentioned no one, this church consider all such courts to be of human appointment, and their acts as not binding on the conscience of any Christian yet, as advisory bodies, they think' they may be, and are, in many cases useful. V - Every member of this Church shall be considered as in the fellowship, and under the watch and discipline ofthe Church, until regularly dismissed. But whenever any brother, or sister, in regular standing, shall, witha good conscience, believe that his or her growth in grace will be promoted by a dismission from this to another Church; (which Church we consider as founded upon the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone, ) and shall apply for dismission, then we will 'give a letter of dismission and recommendation in the customary man ner, after the request has laid over one week for consideration from the time of its presentation to the Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.