Article November 23, 1907 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Frank White, F. J. Powicke

[The Universalist Leader.]

The true unity of the Church is produced by the spirit of Christ animating every member thereof. Destroy this spirit and the Church is no longer Christian; or let any member lose this spirit and he becomes useless, morally dead. If the gospel is clear on any point, it is on that of the sacredness of the individual conscience. All Christ's appeals were directed to the individual soul. He did not seek to reform men by massing them and then moulding them by some foreign power; but he sought to reform them by appealing to each soul, by touching each individual heart, and thus working from the one to the many. He used no power but the power of truth and love, which left each free, but persuaded their wills and caused them to act freely in the right way. So then the only possible unity in a church that is truly Christian, is the unity of the spirit. How does Christianity purpose to secure this unity? We answer, by making men of one spirit!

[The Standard.]

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