Of course, the students are well aware of all this and their innate sense of fairness and justice causes them to rebel against the frightened institutional attitude. Of course, it is really not that bad with me. I do not regard the brethren who attack me by name in their journals as enemies. They are simply defenders of the partisan status quo. When I had a sectarian concept of God's community I acted just like they do now.
People are weary and tired of fighting one another over secondary issues.
The narrow bitter attitude inherited from a frontier culture has no place in the lives of those who are maturing in Christ. Sectarian littleness has had its day. Men who do their best to drum up a following over artificial issues, and who seek to appear as the last defenders of embattled truth are in for a hard time. Brethren are fed up with being made financial angels to bail out someone's new crusade against an imaginary threat.