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 freedom in electing what organizations they will aid, is a serious matter.

The saddest phase of this whole matter is that all the alienation of friends from the U. C. M. S. has been caused by disloyalty to Christ and the apostles on the part of certain ofﬁcials or employees.

Had all connected therewith been content to do the work for which they were employed, and remained true to the New Testament teaching, we would all be enthusiastically honoring them and giving hilariously to increase the number of both ﬁelds and workers.

In the past, every department of our organized work has received the earnest support of all who believe in co-operative effort, and only those who are betraying the cause they pledged to advance are responsible for the present disaffection.

Co-operation in the larger affairs of Christian work is essential to the highest success. But every individual and congregation must be left entirely free to use or not use any particular agency.

Missionary leaders and their apologists need to be reminded that intolerance and arrogance may be as disastrous to their cause as disloyalty. It is not heresy to employ a variety of agencies. It may or may not be wise, but it is not schismatic.

No organization has a right to claim to represent the whole church. At best, it can represent only those creating or those using it. No one society can have a monopoly, unless every worker in the ﬁeld served by that society voluntarily chooses to use it.

Every existing organization, created to serve the churches, might disband, but that 23