A sect can be started on a few new tenets, but not even a little sect can be sustained by these few tenets very long. Much less could the church of Christ. If it were attempted to maintain that great institution of God on a few fundamental points concerning faith, repentance, and baptism, by debating a few issues with sects and with "digressives," it would lead only to failure. These things, however right and good and necessary, [54] cannot sustain interest and spiritual life. Man liveth by every word that cometh out of the mouth of God. By thus narrowing the bed until no man can stretch himself on it, we cause many, before they half understand their position and privilege as Christians, to become discontented, and fall an easy prey to "digressivism," or any other "ism" that may promise a freer scope and a fuller spiritual life.

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