Brotherly Love

While you have a sincere good will to wards all the people of God, your more active affections must necessarily go forth to those who are next to you, those with whom you worship and join in sacramental communion; in other words, to your own church. These you are to “love as brethren.”f Is this the case in all our churches? Is not the bond between member and member, no more in many cases, than that they sit in the same house and listen to the same preacher?

* 1 Pet. 2:17, f I Pet 3: 8.

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