. Addresses : delivered to the World's Congress and General Missionary Convention of the Church of Christ, held at Chicago in September, 1893. - names, and return to thechurch of the first century, to the foundation of Apostles andProphets, they will find us a people tenting on that groundand lifting the banner of the cross higher and still ]■. I> PCW I K CHRISTIAN UNION. F. D. POWER. Christian union is the one high, clear note of this latterhalf of the nineteenth century. The need of it is pressing,the desire for it deep, the prayer for it fervent, the plea for itpowerful beyond a
. Addresses : delivered to the World's Congress and General Missionary Convention of the Church of Christ, held at Chicago in September, 1893. - names, and return to thechurch of the first century, to the foundation of Apostles andProphets, they will find us a people tenting on that groundand lifting the banner of the cross higher and still ]■. I> PCW I K CHRISTIAN UNION. F. D. POWER. Christian union is the one high, clear note of this latterhalf of the nineteenth century. The need of it is pressing,the desire for it deep, the prayer for it fervent, the plea for itpowerful beyond anything that marks our present-da}^ Chris-tianity. Nobody now thanks God for sects. Such praisecould be rendered to but one being named in the Bible, andwe are not called to give thanks to Beelzebub. InternallyChristendom must be more irenic if externally it would bemore aggressive is a world-wide sentiment. The flowingtide is with union; the ebb with divisions. Originally the church was one. And when the day ofPentecost was fully come they were all with one accord inone place. The multitude of them that believed were ofone heart and of one soul. As the body is one and hathmany members, and all the members of that one body beingmany are one body, so also is Christ, or the Church ofChrist. There is one body. A new commandmentgive I unto you
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