3. For if according to the Lord’s
saying, that which two shall have agreed upon on earth concerning
anything which they shall ask, shall be done for them, as He says, by
My Father, Who is in heaven, for: “Where two or three are
gathered together in My Name, there am I in the midst of
them,” S. Matt. xviii. 21. how much
less, where the full congregation is gathered in the Name of the
Lord. Where the demand of all is unanimous, ought we to doubt
that the Lord Jesus is there as the Author of that desire, and the
Hearer of the petition, the Presider over the ordination, and the Giver
of the grace?