Peace-Making

To promote harmony and love in the church, is a Christlike employment. Differences continually arise among brethren; and they are abominable in the sight of God Kot only should you avoid them yourself but you should spare no pains to prevent and heal them in others. There is scarcely a feud or a coldness, which mieht not be removed in its commencement. But the trickling rill soon swells to a torrent. “The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out

Prov. 25: 23 water.“* Timely intervention, between the contending parties, with honest and affectionate entreaty, will in most cases be successful. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.”f