Henry Boehm, Reminiscences, Historical and Biographical, of Sixty-Four Years in the Ministry, ed. Joseph B. Wakeley (New York: Carlton & Porter, 1865), pp. 17–18

The lambs of the flock cannot too soon enter the fold. In apostolic times converts did not first try the experiment whether they could get along without uniting with the Church. On the day of Pentecost the three thousand…