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German and Scandinavian Conferences
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An Example of Brotherly Kindness
When our brethren in Scandinavia faced a financial crisis, the
testimony was given that we must not permit our brethren to stand
as bankrupt before the world. That would have been dishonoring to
God. And the prompt and liberal action of our American brethren
was an acknowledgment that the difference in nationality could not
release them from their duty to assist one another in the work of
God. “All ye are brethren.”
Matthew 23:8
. We are one in the unity
of the truth.
We must now, by diligent, self-sacrificing effort, endeavor to
walk in the love of Christ, in the unity of the Spirit, through sanc-
tification of the truth. No halfway work will suffice to fulfill the
representation given in the prayer of Christ. We are to practice
the principles of heaven here below. In heaven there is one grand
meeting place.
I must write plainly regarding the building up of partition walls
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in the work of God. Such an action has been revealed to me as a
fallacy of human invention. It is not the Lord’s plan for His people to
separate themselves into separate companies, because of differences
in nationality and language. Did they do this, their ideas would
become narrow, and their influence would be greatly lessened. God
calls for a harmonious blending of a variety of talents.
I again repeat the words of Christ. I would impress them deeply
upon your minds. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also
which shall believe on Me through their word;
that they all may 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.”
Christ has hedged in His people from the world, but those who
would build up national separation, would do a work for which the
Lord Jesus Christ has given no encouragement.
Brethren, unify; draw close together, laying aside every human
invention and following closely in the footsteps of Jesus, your great
Example.
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