The reader will surely notice that he has kept off the first and centered all his attention on the second. This was also his course in his four original articles, and this is the reason we did not run them. This sets a pattern that you will find characteristic of his present articles. If it were granted that every personal jab made was an error, this would not affect in the least the falseness of this man's teaching and its danger for the brotherhood. We have no desire to inject personalities into this discussion, but we do plan to insist that Brother K answer the doctrinal issues.
Doctrinal soundness is the only thing that matters.
Doctrinal barriers are not artificial barriers. None would object to any legitimate effort toward unity. Every good thing said or done to this end is commendable. But doing violence to the Bible teaching regarding the essentials of unity is not a good thing. This we cannot accept because the Bible does not teach it.