Full Question
If we hold the Truth ourselves, why should we bother about what other ecclesias believe?
Answer
1885 pg. 307. “Many of you do not hold this doctrine. A t this, we are glad, but your determination to abide by those who do hold it, or uphold those who teach it, makes it impossible for us in our action to make any discrimination between you and them. It is a scriptural principle which commends itself to reason, that he that biddeth a man God-speed in evil course, makes himself responsible for that course 2 John II.”
“You may believe Paul’s statement, equally with ourselves, but if you make yourselves one with those who nullify it and the doctrines they hold, you erect the same barrier between us and you as exists between us and them .”
1885 pg. 388. “A man himself believing the Truth and willing to wink at its denial among those in fellowship in any o f its essential elements, becomes, by this willingness, an offender against the law of Christ. Faithful servants o f Christ cannot unite with such, on the ground that though he holds the Truth himself, such a man is responsible for the error o f those whom he would admit.” 2 John 2.
1885 pg. 548. “By a chain o f unpremeditated events, the whole brotherhood is being tested. It becomes impossible for ecclesias everywhere to ignore the question. Both cannot be fellowshipped and to remain neutral is equivalent to taking the wrong side. ‘He that is not with me is against m e / said Christ (Matt. 12-30).
“The Valley of the Shadow”