To us no other order and no other name are admissible. If men will not follow this order, the responsibility rests upon them. We go everywhere preaching the gospel, and those who are willing to follow this order we recognize as the Church of God in said locality. But this does not constitute it a church. It must be that before in the most important sense.
Organization is a duty laid upon the church in every locality.
It does not become a church by virtue of this organization, but the organization is right and proper, and is by virtue of its being a part of the Church general, and to the end that certain things may be done and effected. The organization is of a body already in existence, and consists simply in the appointment of men to certain prescribed offices as the servants of the church. The end of organization determines the nature and powers of the offices. It is first designed as a means through which the body can acts as a body in pecuniary and secular matters. It is to make it an active unity.