Article August 1, 1908 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from George A. Gordon, Lyman Abbott

[The Examiner.]

It does not necessarily indicate a latitudinarian spirit when men who are substantially agreed with regard to essentials "agree to disagree" respecting minor differences of belief. We are inclined to think that, if a thorough catechizing were to be undertaken in our Baptist churches, not a few strange, not to say grotesque, ideas would be discovered, entertained by brethren who are quite sound with respect to the fundamental tenets of the denomination. Perhaps diversities would be found as wide apart as those which separate us, for example, from our brethren of the Disciples churches. If this be so, and we suffer no inconvenience or harm from such diversities, it might be well to consider why we should longer be separated in fellowship and work from those who are probably no farther apart from us than we are from each other, and who agree with us in the essentials of the faith—if they do so agree.

[Rev. George A. Gordon in The Congregationalist.]

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