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tion with the assured promise of the
revealing Spirit whose special mission
was 'to bring all things to their re-
membrance'D that there was a def-
mite and assured safeguard against the
ENGRAVING of error or discipline in
the organization of the Church, as as
suredly might have been the case had
it been of simple. human origin End
without the safeguard of authoritative
control or Priesthood, which was n
part OF the inviolablc and essential
whole.
1t is this Gospel or the method
ICED system of salvation, which
as Good News" became the
burthen of all the Apostles whose
writings have come down to our time
They understood its origin; it was
called "the Gospel of Cod (see 1
Thess. Q: % Rom. 1: 1, also Rom. 10:
10, Tim. /: ~; further in honor of
its Revealer it was designated the
Gospel of Christ" (see Rom. i: 16. 10;
20; l Cor. 8: ~; Cor. 4: 4; Rom. 10:
10, and many other places. 1t was
also called "the Gospel of salvation"
Eph /: 49,, and the Saints were
warned against those who would
pervert the Gospel" and against
those who were given to change"
Stin further, vengeance" was predict
ed against all those who failed to obey
the Gospel OF Jesus Christ. Upon one
at least of those who were called upon
to preach this Gospel was "a woe"
pronounced, as if the mission and the
responsibility thereof was not only an
unreasonable privilege but had as
sociated with it supreme self-abnega-
tion and opinion on that which had
been given.
From this standpoint what would
have been in the early days the con-
,lusion in regard to present sectarian-
ism. or modern Christianity with Its
yagaries, controversies and divisionsT
mark those which cause divisions and
offenses among you, contrary to the
doctrine which you have learned,
and avoid them (Rom. l6: II, and in
/ Cor. 12: 25, also / 10), so that schism
and division are adjudged unworthy of
federation.
Christendom stands convicted before
the world as anti Christian. as being
without the pale Of unity, claiming
this, however, in essentials, and stating
in great assemblies that the differences
extant are of little or no moment; yet
ever degrading by controversy and sep
arate organizations and teachers to an
unbelleylng world that division is to
multiply pulpits and to sustain hire
ling clergy and to belittle in the eyes
of thinking aliens and unbelievers the
grandest feature of ancient, God
directed Christianity!
Paul in his day could and did ana
thematize all who preached any sub
stitute or variation from that taught
of authority The Christian world of to-
day anathematize the only per-
feet counterpart on earth of
ancient Christianity, whether as
to doctrine, ordinances. spirit,
methods, manifestations or Or
ganlzation. 1t denies to this counter
part the name of Christian" it ex-
cludes from introduction, from associa-
ton, from blessing, from recognition,
that which for its fidelity, its adher-
ence, Its approximation at least,should
be greeted as a co-worker in the re-
demption and reorganization of the
world.
but we object" says the Christian
world, ito your claims of revelation.
of exciusiveness, OF Priesthood, of di
vine authority and acknowledgment"
Very Well Were these not features
OF the primitive Church? Is 1t an ac-