UNITY,
CHRISTIAN

The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the kind or outward manifestation which God wills that we shall give to that inner unity. But we must seek it.

Hugh Martin

1.      How slow are we all to imitate our great Examplar, who in the most trying moments cried out, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!”

2.      How dangerous is a spirit of contention, of opposition, of vengeance! And how often were it in our power should we be disposed to call down fire from heaven, as Elias did!

3.      How watchful over the growth of bad tempers ought we to be in the very beginnings of all religious controversies!

4.      Then in the progress of them, how does it become us to pause often and examine ourselves, lest we should suppose we are doing God service, when in reality we are impelled only by heat, animosity and a desire of victory.

5.      Lastly, when there really happens to exist in our motives some little good, are we not extremely apt to magnify it, till the fancied picture completely veils from our eyes that large admixture of evil, which on the whole miserably predominates. And is not this a fruitful source of deception?

Joseph Milner