Some are cramped in style because of cramping congregations, while others are extended beyond their native ability because of a wise congregation investing their spiritual resources in and through them. One of the strange things about some preachers is the extent to which they deny themselves of brother preachers' fellowship by isolation habits. I have always considered that in these regards they were forerunners in making religion relevant to normal life. We must never tire of asserting and practising that Christian Unity is our business. We are dependent on young men and women to appreciate the application of our unity plea in the contemporary situation.
Older men see it in the setting and circumstances which have changed.
Many dividing fences have been lowered. Unity is the work of young men. Older men follow their fears, younger men their hopes. The time has come for all to be venturesome. Surely our New Zealand brethren have been so in sitting around conference tables, coming to grips with differences and agreements, and endeavouring to discern a basis of unity with their Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational brethren.