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for one may not discern the dangers which another’s eye is quick to
perceive; but if the undiscerning will in confidence obey the warning,
they may be saved great perplexities and trials.
As Jesus was about to leave His disciples, He prayed for them in a
most touching, solemn manner that they all might be one “as Thou,
Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us: that
the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which
Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We
are one: I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect
in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and
hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” The apostle Paul in his first
epistle to the Corinthians exhorts them to unity: “Now I beseech you,
brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the
same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be
perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.”
God is leading a people out from the world upon the exalted plat-
form of eternal truth, the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
He will discipline and fit up His people. They will not be at variance,
one believing one thing, and another having faith and views entirely
opposite, each moving independently of the body. Through the diver-
sity of the gifts and governments that He has placed in the church, they
will all come to the unity of the faith. If one man takes his views of
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Bible truth without regard to the opinions of his brethren, and justifies
his course, alleging that he has a right to his own peculiar views, and
then presses them upon others, how can he be fulfilling the prayer of
Christ? And if another and still another arises, each asserting his right
to believe and talk what he pleases without reference to the faith of the
body, where will be that harmony which existed between Christ and
His Father, and which Christ prayed might exist among His brethren?
God is leading out a people and establishing them upon the one
great platform of faith, the commandments of God and the testimony
of Jesus. He has given His people a straight chain of Bible truth,
clear and connected. This truth is of heavenly origin and has been
searched for as for hidden treasure. It has been dug out through careful
searching of the Scriptures and through much prayer.
Brother B is doubting point after point of our faith. If he is right
in his new theories, the body of Sabbathkeepers is wrong. Shall the
established faith in the strong points of our position, which has led