The indications from many parts of the field seem to be that...

The indications from many parts of the field seem to be that a greater spirit of brotherly love, trust, and fellowship, in act and fact, rather than in word and profession, is the crying need of the hour. It is useless, nay, it is sinful, for us to prate about brotherly love unless we do so in sincerity and truth, and make good our prating with actual demonstration. Were this the rule, as it should be, and were we true to our teaching and professions, there would be no factions, personal disputings or animosities. Do we realize that each thought or motive which is apart from the expression of divine Love is along the line of personality? Do we stop to consider that personality is inimical to the sense of God as divine Principle, and that in the measure of our losing sight of God as divine Principle, we are drifting away from the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man? Let us ask ourselves earnestly and sincerely, Are we true to the example of the Master, the precepts of the Gospels, and the repeated exhortations of the apostles? are we obeying the injunctions of our text-book and the manifold admonitions of our Leader and Guide, in lending ourselves to the spirit of partisanship which just now seems to be so rife in many places?