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 be the last to forsake their beloved forms and dogmas, yet, since they are in positions of authority, all negotiations must be carried on through them.

The wise and successful plan is to go directly to the rank and ﬁle of denominational Christians, with a frank purpose of inviting all who conscientiously accept New Testament teaching, to stand together on a platform for Scriptural unity. Drop negotiations with denominational leaders and organizations, and go over their heads to the people. This would result in our being called "proselyters," of course.

It should not worry as to be called names by those who defend New Testament heresy. Jesus did not rebuke Pharisees for making proselytes, but for making them "twofold more children of hell" than they were themselves. Proselyting, per se, is not only permissible, but a positive duty. It is only by making proselytes that any reform may hone to succeed. Had our message to a divided church been preached in love by every minister in our ranks, with the courage and enthusiasm the cause merits, consternation in denominational circles would have reached the panic stage ere this division is sin, and we have the remedy, we are pitiable when we lack courage to present the truth as we see it, and God will not lightly judge us. If it is not sin, then let us become denominationalists at once.

The final phase of our subject relates to the so-called "practice of Christian unity" among ourselves.

In recent years we have listened to some cheap flings to the effect that we preach Christian unity more, and practice it less, 21