Full Question
Is not our fellowship with the Father and the Son? Is it not therefore true that we are not responsible for wrong doctrine among those with whom we assemble at the Lord’s fable?
Answer
1885 pg. 468. “ If it be true that w e are not responsible for the doctrines o f those with whom w e helpfully assemble, why should we come away from’ the churches and chapels? Why sacrifice the comforts and advantages o f popular communions, if it is the Father only we fellowship, and not those with whom we may identify ourselves? The theory is a mischievous one, and it will work with mischievous results in the long run.—The Truth would soon disappear, and a few bubbles o f opinion (soon to collapse) would be all that would be left floating on the turbid waters of an ecclesiastical world rapidly- becoming atheistic. It is not a question o f earnest’ men to toy with .”
1886 pg. 127. “And such as walk in the light as God is in the light’ have fellowship first with the Father and His Son and then with one another. When any of the latter injure God’s ‘lamp’ by mixing with it an element of human darkness, their fellowship ’ with Him is impaired, or suspended; and then if becomes a duty on the part of those who desire to live in the full light of the Spirit’s ‘lamp’ to separate’ from them that they too may not be in jeopardy of being deprived of fellowship with the Father and’ Son.”
“The Valley of the Shadow”