The bee., 1902-06-12

FACTS IN TIE CASE. 8
VCTOR ". DORIS.
Observation-Disclosures Observation-Disclosures

accept the present divided and con
flIctIng forces as Gods ideal broth
| erhood.
conscientious, intelligent Bibl,
| student thinks so. The creates
minds and most devOnt and earnes
teachers of the last seventy-fiv,
years have said that divisions
creed, ETC., are to be deplOred anC
can be rected by the union of al
Gods people.
We insist that this union can, anC
must be accomplished by a return
to the teaching faith, and practic,
of the early church of the first cen
tury. The man who takes God:
word as his guide and follows it:
lead, sees no room, nor need fol
these divisions; and Furthermore, il
teacher believes and practices
what the early church did, he will
be right and cannot be wrong, and
this cause never was, never will and
never can lead to the creation of
sectarious and divisions.
When L taught this in Darlington
was L right or was wrong. Let the
honest, sincere reader answer.
You may say that should have
tried to offend no one, but to please
every one. Let me answer that /
am not averse to pleasing people,
and that L dislike very much to of
fend them, but 1 am much more
concerned about pleasing my Lord
and Master, than L am about pleas
ing people and if any one was disap-
pointed in me because 1 did not be-
come time server that 1 might
please every one, even at the eX-
pense of truth and conviction, they
should look in Gods word, to see
whether l taught the truth or not,
and if L did, they should change
their views and not ask me to quit
preaching the truth.
Darlington, or any other place
will be blessed just in proportion as
its preachers will scorn to be time
servers and men pleasers at the sac
rifice of the truth of God.
Will your scribe" undertake to
show fIom the word of God:
l. That 1 taught a single doctrin
which is not plainly taught in God 5
word? L hear him say he cannot do
it He can show that taught many
things which were not believed by
many, but that is not the question.
2. Will he show that Gods word
provide for and supports denomina-
tic nal divisions?
Those who are too busy, indiffer-
ent erI partisOn to investigate the
truth may be pleased with the easy
going assumption of your "scribe"
that we should go along and "do
good" and promote christian
brotherhood" by accepting all kinds
of teachiugs and denominations as
proper, but as the public grows in
intellectual strength and Bible
knowledge, the demand will be
made more and more for lone body,
one hope, one spirit, one faith, one
Lord, one baptism, and one God. "
Eph. 4: 4-8, and will visit that per-
fection through the "unity of the
faith" Eph. 4, l3.
This will not and cannot come by
joining this or that denomination,
but by being free from all denomi-
national limitations and by being
one in christ, in the one church Of
Christ, in Christ's church; not your
church. nor my church, but Christ's
church, and we are all brethren in
the one body or family.
This can be done, and anything
short of it is not what Gods word
provides for.
Am 1 right or wrong in teaching
it?
This is written in justice to the
cause of Christ in Darlington, and
especially in justice to the faithful
preacher and noble members of the
church of Christ there.
1 am not seeking newspaper no.
teriety, nor am L seeking discuss
ion, but that justice be done to our
great plea for the union of all God IS
people in one body in Christ. L
think L may turn this matter over
to Bro. Mitchell, who is amply able
to take care of it. However L shall
not refuse to serve the cause there
in any wav can and should.
Most Cordially,
VICTOR w. DORIS.
Georgetown, KY, June, 6, 1902.
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