The spiritual union of all believers in Christ is now and ever will be a blessed reality, and such union is deeper and higher and more enduring than any and all forms and rituals and organizations. Whoever believes in Christ as personal Saviour is our brother or sister in the common salvation, whether they be a member of one communion or of another, or of no communion at all. They did not stumble upon this principle. Their uniform, unyeilding and sacrificial advocacy of such principle was not and is not an accident. It is, in a word, because of our essential and fundamental principles.
Ideas rule the world.
A denomination is moulded by its ruling principles, just as a nation is thus moulded and just as individual life is thus moulded. Our fundamental essential principles have made our Baptist people, of all ages and countries, to be unyeilding protagonists of religious liberty, not only for themselves, but for everybody else as well. That utterance, once for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.