Guarding the Unity of Christ
By Editor
WE repeat, they must be one; it is impossible that they should not be, as long as they keep the unity of the Spirit. But Satan is alive, he is active and determined, he will stir up division, strife, and contention if it be possible, and there is where each one must ever be watchful, earnest, and vigilant, that he be not one through whom the adversary may wound the precious body of Christ. Paul's warning is that 'of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.' Acts 20 : 30. There is the secret of all perverseness and division—self-exaltation, to draw away disciples after them. Instead of being disciples they want to be masters. Instead of exerting themselves, in meekness and quietness, to gain disciples to Christ, they seek, in willful self-assertion, to draw disciples after themselves. But that is not all, they will 'draw away disciples,' that is, they will endeavor in their perverseness to draw disciples of Christ away from him unto themselves. 'Take heed to yourselves.' 'Let no man deceive you.' Let no man deceive himself.