Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk by John Kline
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another place, "We have been made to sit together in heavenly places,"
by which he correlatively means just the same that we mean when we say we sit in the sun, meaning that we sit where the light of the sun shines upon us. Now, Brethren beloved, I have been very brief on a subject that might be profitably expanded into a volume. I hope that I have given you points by which you may take the subject and think upon it for yourselves; and thus add faith to faith, and knowledge to knowledge. May God add his blessing to what I have said, that it may prove to be strength in much weakness. During the interval between the twenty-fourth and the twenty-eighth, Brother Kline visited many Brethren in Augusta County, Virginia. THURSDAY, April 28, he attended a love feast at the brick meetinghouse. Of this he says: "The afternoon meeting was well attended. The second chapter of Peter's first letter was read. Much good instruction for self-examination was given, both in German and English, from the general scope of the chapter. I made a few remarks on the middle clause in the seventeenth verse: '_Love the brotherhood_.' "I fear we do not speak and exhort one another as plainly and warmly as we should on this most essential part of every true believer's experience and life. What keeps us a united and happy people? _Love of the Brotherhood._ What keeps us from quarreling with one another, from slandering and defrauding one another? _Love of the Brotherhood._ What keeps alive our sympathies for each other in times of distress and in seasons of sorrow? _Love of the Brotherhood._ |
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