True Unity by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 22, 1905

True Unity

By Editor

True Unity.—A blessed result of unity is strength. "United we stand, divided we fall," is emphatically true religiously as well as politically. But this unity does not come by compromise, by a set of resolutions, nor by voting it so. Resolutions are proper enough in expressing what is, and what it is one's purpose to do, but they can not make union. Unity of purpose and object is the only way to effect true union. If two men come together, each seeking to advantage himself, they will remain together only so long as there is hope of serving the selfish purpose of each. If two are united with the sole purpose of glorifying God, sinking all selfish considerations out of sight, they will remain united to the end, or so long as the purpose is the same. True union with each other is true union of each individual with God through His Word first of all. Christ and His truth, then, form the bond of union, the only effectual union, the only living union, the only union taught by the Bible.