We ask, therefore, that the total Christian constituency may be accepted as the first expression of the native force.

The progress of the Gospel is most seriously affected by the whole number of those who in any sense call themselves Christians.

They are the force in the place which influences the heathen for or against it.

It is of the utmost importance that they should be reckoned first, and treated first, as the force which above all others works slowly, quietly, imperceptibly, but mightily.

The whole body of those who profess and call themselves Christians should be put in the very first place.
Then the communicants (or full members) are commonly the body to which all turn for voluntary zealous effort.