SUPPLEMENTARY REMARKS

SUPPLEMENTARY REMARKS

In the foregoing recital attention has been concentrated on some of the more outstanding conflicts which the progress of the recovery of the truth has had to encounter, but conflict in one form or another has continued all down the line. In writing to Timothy, Paul enjoined that the truth was to be handed on by Timothy to faithful men, who would be competent to instruct others also, and then immediately added “Take thy share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ” (2 Timothy 2: 2 and 3), evidently implying that the maintenance of the truth required the taking up of a suffering and militant attitude on the part of the faithful. Frequently the conflicts have been confined to particular localities or areas, but in such cases it will be usually found that the principles involved were those which were at issue in the Bethesda matter or the Glanton and Alnwick matter already dealt with in these pages.

There are, however, certain matters in which important elements of sound teaching were involved to which allusion should be made.