Trace the principlla also in the constitution of a happy home, which after all is the real model of all social life. There is a widespread revolt against marriage laws and home life on the part of anti-Christian writers. And I don't wonder at their resentment if they are not prepared to accept the principle of self-limitation and renunciation. If a man has lost the key of his clock he may as well put it away and if a man misses the key to home life what can he make of it? Nothing but a mess. To live for and in one another makes home beautiful in itself and the basis for society, but to live for self make home a prison and married life a penance.
So it is with the Church, Every part of its fellowship has to put' a check on its claims in order to function for the Body as a whole. Constituted as it ig of all sorts and conditions of men, not select from the club point of view, but "elect of God,". it demands mutual subordination and service in all things and at all times. The peace and welfare of the Church suffer not because convictions are strong, for they should... be, but because love is weak. The real presence of "Christ can only be enjoyed when there is a tolerant, considerate and forgiving spirit among the members. a refusal to indulge in grievances, grudges and suspicions. O for the spirit of Christmas to fall on the Churches of Christ, that the mind that was in Him might prevail in His members!
"A nobler Church shall rise that shall be good, And have Love printed on the brow. Man shall not ask his brother any more, "Believest thou?' but Lovest thou!"
It-has become evident then that there is. a sheer necessity for
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