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I must commend your article "What Is Heresy?" for it exhibits the proper answer to many problems, especially your attitude about the preacher wanting to get rid of the "premillenial brother." Too many want to get rid of a brother with whom they disagree, and throw him out of the church instead of trying to get him to learn the truth and save his soul, which is worth far more than this old world. The great difficulty is that the church today has scarcely any real scriptural elders, and I feel the preachers are not trying to educate and train brethren in that field.-- W. C. Conrad (Michigan).
The first article entitled "Thoughts on Fellowship" I consider to be one of the best I have ever read. I got my Bible and other works of reference and studied the relationship of every passage you gave. It opened up a new leaf in my thinking, although I doubt that I would have understood the depth of this except for the week of study in Shelbyville. -- Lester H. Stevens (Missouri).
I have just finished reading "The Royal Priesthood" today, and the word that comes to my mind with reference to the book is superb. It gets down to the crux of the matter better than anything else I have read. I read every word of the Mission Messenger for 1957 and think it it was the best year yet for that little paper. -- E. W. Williams (Illinois).
On the whole, I think yours and Leroy's stand on Christian fellowship is right, and I accept that viewpoint. Sometimes I wonder about the practical effects of the idea. It leaves one, of course, with old boundaries (prejudices, I suppose) broken down, groping for some way of getting hold of things in this new relationship. Nevertheless, I refuse to take the easy way of rejecting ideas because they are new -- to me. -- Robert C. Grayson (Nebraska).