Is there a church in your house? Are parents, children, friends, and servants all members of it? Or are some still unconverted? How a father's heart would leap for joy and a mother's eyes fill with holy tears if all were saved from the oldest to the youngest! Let us pray for this great mercy until the Lord grants it to us. Probably it had been the dearest of Philemon's desires to have all his household saved, but it was not at first granted him in its fulness. He had a wicked servant, Onesimus, who, having wronged him ran away from his service. But his master's prayers followed him, and as God would have it, Onesimus was led to hear Paul preach. His heart was touched, and he returned to Philemon, not only to be a faithful servant, but a beloved brother. Is there an unconverted child absent this morning? Make special supplication that such may, on their return to their home, gladden all hearts with good news of what grace has done! Is there one present? Let him partake in the same earnest plea. If there is such a church in your house, order it well. Let all act as in the sight of God. Move in the common affairs of life with holiness, diligence, kindness, and integrity. More is expected of a church than of an ordinary household. Family worship must, in such a case, be more devout and hearty. Internal love must be more warm and unbroken, and external conduct must be more sanctified and Christlike. As a church let us draw near to the great Head of the one Church universal, and let us beseech Him to give us grace to shine before men to the glory of His name.