"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. For there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forevermore." Psalms 133: 1, 3.
Christian Unity represents an ideal condition, such as the precept, which is also a promise, "Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." Matthew 5: 48. How can the ideal be made the real?
The simple gospel of Christ, bringing "peace on earth, good will to men," has been elaborated into man-made creeds and imposing rituals. It has been the battle ground of theological dissensions, which have divided the Church into many sects. Failing to appreciate how far they have wandered from the teachings of the humble Nazarene, these sects consider how they can be united in one grand, impressive army, while yet unwilling to abandon their various conflicting dogmas. Each one desires organized unity, if all will come into that particular fold and embrace that sect's cherished beliefs. They have constructed their Tower of Babel, to reach after God, but upon earthly foundations, and the result is a "confusion of tongues." Earnest thinkers are convinced that Christian Unity must first be Christian, in the inspiration of its primitive purity, to realize the ideal of the founder of Christianity,— "That they all may be one: as Thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us." "I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be made perfect in One." John 17:21 and 23.
