It has been told of Isaac Newton that he was very fond of cats, and cut two holes in the bottom of his door for his two pets--a big hole for the big cat and a little hole for the little cat. We laugh at the idea. Yet what do men do religiously? They have the Bible, containing all of God's truth; yet they must needs have a human creed besides. [258] They belong to the church of God, and are, therefore, heirs of all truth; but some must join Russell, or the Mormons, or the Adventists, human sects, because, forsooth, these hold some real or supposed bit of truth. They have a right to the Fountain whence come all the living waters, but they feel compelled to make miserable cisterns which cannot even hold what little they contain. A member of God's church has a right to all truth. He is not hedged in by man's creed, written or unwritten. For the church of the Lord teaches nothing officially, only she proclaims Jesus as Lord and Christ, and induces men to give him faith and obedience. And we are complete in him. As we received him, so we walk in him, so do we grow up into him, in whim are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden, and in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. The fight of the present day is to make Christians see their freedom, limited only by true love, and to keep that which should be the church of Christ from degenerating into a mean little sect. Let us press on. The only remedy for the failures and errors of the day is a fuller knowledge, a truer understanding, of God's holy word and a deeper revelation to our own hearts of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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