p. 13 | UNION IN CHRIST

Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Jan 9, 1907

UNION IN CHRIST.

The world is endeavoring to federate together. So also are many of the churches, not on the basis of the truth of the Bible, but on certain things held in common for which they wish to wield an influence that will tell on the politics of the world, and yet, the only true unifying power in the world is the Gospel of Christ. Take, for instance, the following words from the report of a missionary in Europe:

"While in the Levant we saw the Greek slaughtering the Bulgarian, the Roumanian banishing the Greek, and the Hungarian fighting the Austrian; yet wherever the genuine Gospel peace takes hold of these men we find that it unifies their various interests. They can come up together and joyfully unite in our great annual meetings where as many as one thousand people are assembled representing more than twenty-five of these nationalities, made one in heart and purpose by that one Spirit.

"We may see the Irish against the English, we may see the Scotch and Welsh pursuing their own interest, but when this blessed Gospel takes hold of them, lo, in a day they are one."

What a blessed thing it would be if nominal Christianity were seeking for that power which would thus unify its divided principles.

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