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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 5, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 21.

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Open Communion.

By Jos. Clarke

THE above-mentioned subject has been very fully discussed of late in the REVIEW. Although the ground taken is higher than we had anticipated, yet it is clearly scriptural and reasonable; and all those who pray and strive for purity will cordially indorse this doctrine, and will praise God, that the standard is elevated.
No greater unkindness can be done to any one than to flatter him with false hopes. Open communion has a tendency to bring the church upon the level with its enemy, the world, and to deceive the unregenerate, and lull them to a fatal sleep.
Who would wish to be deceived? Who would wish to demolish the wall which surrounds the fold of the Good Shepherd? Who would wish to see wolves in that fold? No, this may not be. Such a policy as breaks down the lines of demarkation between good and evil brings no good to any one.
The greatest kindness God can confer upon us poor sinners is to faithfully convict us of sin, and to show us that the door is the only entrance to his dear fold.
JOS. CLARKE.