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 to discuss the Scriptural basis of Christian unity. Thousands of addresses are being delivered and scores of volumes written on it, but rarely do we hear or read appeals "to the law and the testimony."

Even certain groups in the ranks of those to whom has descended the honor of propagating the principles of the nineteenth-century Restoration movement are ignoring Scripture, boldly asserting that it has no solution for the problem. A humiliating fact.

This movement began with the assumption that the problem could be Scripturally solved, and from the beginning has sought the basis therein presented. Most of us believe we have found it.

Just here it is necessary to raise the question as to what is meant by Christian unity. Much confusion exists on this matter.

All agree that division is found where unity should obtain.

But what is to be united—Christians, congregations or denominations? All three conceptions have their champions.

The remedy offered will inform us what the ideal of its advocate is.

All our thinking on the problem of unity must be in terms of some unit of which the desired unity is to consist.

What is this unit?

Current discussion unquestionably indicates that most people are thinking in terms of organization. The denomination is the unit.

Such conceive of Christian unity as a mere problem of denominational union, or, perhaps, of frictionless comity among different bodies. 9