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Well, now he says, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem”. Oh, it needs your prayers! “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem”. Some of the dear saints make much of the nice brother; of course, a nice brother is a nice brother, but they make more of the brother than of what he says, his doctrine and his principles. You want to get the principles first. Get the principles before you make up your mind about a brother. Find out his principles and how he applies them. That is the order of God, if you look at the book of Numbers, chapter 4, you see that the Levites are in three families, and the sons of Kohath have a service in connection with the most sacred things. The second is Gershon and he has to do with the principles; he has to look after these things. He comes in before the sons of Merari, who are porters and builders. This is the only place where it says the instruments to be carried were dealt out by name (Numbers 4: 32); that is, they are persons. These are under the hand of Merari. But Gershon’s work comes before this. Get the principles first! Insist on the principles before you make much of the persons. Make much of the persons, of course; they will be in heaven, the saints will be, but the principles should come first as down here. That is the reason why I am stressing the idea of care as so important and that all should be brought into it and all should understand that he has to do his part in looking after things.

J. Taylor (Vol. 99, pp.244, 245)

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