much modified, and you wdll be disposed to smile at many things which you may now think are very wise. Still more, plans and methods which worked admirably in another congregation, with different elders, and among a people in many respects very different from yours, might be very unsuitable in your church. Besides, your session contains some men of great piety, wisdom and intelligence, who have long and large experience as elders, and who understand the peculiarities of the people perfectly. It would, it seems to me, be but little short of impertinence in you to go before that session with new plans and methods, determined to force them through. You may succeed. Many of them will be loth to offend you or unwilling to oppose a measure on which you seem to be set, and acquiesce, yet their judgments not be convinced. Y^ou cannot expect such men to co-operate very heartily in To a Young Minisier. 233 carrying out measures of Avliose wisdom they are in doubt. Without their co-operation you will be in danorer of failure. Failure would brinor mortifica- tion to yourself and destroy your influence with your people; crimination and recrimination would inevitably follow, and Avhen such a state of things exists the pastoral relation is not likely to be very permanent. I. am fully persuaded that young