If others will quarrel with us, we must make every effort not to quarrel with them. If others will treat us spitefully, we must not treat them spitefully in return. To keep the unity of the Spirit. It certainly means that Christians should be united in heart, and not be split up into factions and parties. In the bond of peace.
Peace is a bond that unites people of different dispositions into a society of friendship and love.
A peaceable temperament and conduct bind brethren together, whereas discord injects the poison of distrust and disunity into our relationships as brethren. There was a time when automobile windshield wipers were operated manually. That is, you operated a lever controlling the single wiper blade as you drove. Not that I ever doubted brother Woods' words, but I had never seen such a thing until recently. While visiting a museum I saw a 1928 Ford truck and noticed that it had a single wiper blade controlled by a handle inside the cab.