In Judaism, "the House of God" was a material building, and David and the tribes could speak of going up to it in Jerusalem, but in Christianity, the Church is composed of living stones. We cannot therefore talk of going to Church, for it is the Church which goes, and the building itself is not the Church, but the people who are there. For the same reason, we cannot properly speak of coming out of Church, because we are the Church, and the members of Christ. Peter teaches this great fact, in writing to the converted Jews, respecting Christ and themselves, in his first epistle: "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, arc built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." Paul also writes to the Ephesians: "No man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church: for we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones." Nothing can be plainer than this, but Satan, the untiring corrupter of the truth of God, has mixed up the present ministration of Christ with the past dispensation of Moses and the law, and thus destroyed the peculiarity of the Christian calling, and what a Christian is, as well as what the Church is.