OCTOBER 23RD, 1894

^[p. 91] OCTOBER 23RD, 1894

As to the trouble at — - they shut out — - and those with him because the latter will not own them as Christ’s assembly. I for one utterly repudiate that kind of church pretension. It seems to me that the only justification for our being apart from the outward order of christendom is that we are morally in the truth of Christ’s body, and that the order of christendom is inconsistent with it; but we are certainly not standing apart from it to set up pretension to be Christ’s assembly, or indeed any pretension at all, for if we are not morally in the truth we are the worst sect going, and if we are in the truth we shall not care to set up any pretension, because we know that we have the truth.