The unity of the Spirit...
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"... The unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace ..." Not uniformity, unity. Uniformity is what's on the surface; unity is underneath. The winds may stir up high-tossing waves, but deep down the sea is calm.
Hughes Auditorium, erected in 1929 on the Campus of Asbury College in Kentucky, has on its cornerstone an inscription which, it is said, was written by E. Stanley Jones, graduate of that school, class of 1907. The inscription is as follows: "Here we enter a fellowship. Sometimes we will agree to differ, but always we will resolve to love and unite to serve." That's it, a formula for unity.
The dividing forces are not nearly as important, nor as strong, as the uniting ones. In Los Angeles at 3:00 one morning, a badly inebriated fellow rang a Methodist pastor's doorbell. When the minister answered, the drunk said, "Shay, can I as you a quession?" When the pastor assured him that he could do so, the fellow said, "What's the difference between a fundamentalist and a modernist?" The pastor told him he was in no condition to talk about that, to come back when he was sober, and he would discuss the matter with him. Whereupon the drunken fellow replied, "That's just the trouble; when I'm sober it doesn't seem to matter!"
-- Mann
Hughes Auditorium, erected in 1929 on the Campus of Asbury College in Kentucky, has on its cornerstone an inscription which, it is said, was written by E. Stanley Jones, graduate of that school, class of 1907. The inscription is as follows: "Here we enter a fellowship. Sometimes we will agree to differ, but always we will resolve to love and unite to serve." That's it, a formula for unity.
The dividing forces are not nearly as important, nor as strong, as the uniting ones. In Los Angeles at 3:00 one morning, a badly inebriated fellow rang a Methodist pastor's doorbell. When the minister answered, the drunk said, "Shay, can I as you a quession?" When the pastor assured him that he could do so, the fellow said, "What's the difference between a fundamentalist and a modernist?" The pastor told him he was in no condition to talk about that, to come back when he was sober, and he would discuss the matter with him. Whereupon the drunken fellow replied, "That's just the trouble; when I'm sober it doesn't seem to matter!"
-- Mann
