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In His Steps

CHAPTER Nineteen
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I am not in a position to do that, but I can give you some idea perhaps of what has been done as told me by friends here and by Maxwell himself.
"The result of the pledge upon the First Church has been two-fold.
It has brought upon a spirit of Christian fellowship which Maxwell tells me never before existed, and which now impresses him as being very nearly what the Christian fellowship of the apostolic churches must have been; and it has divided the church into two distinct groups of members.

Those who have not taken the pledge regard the others as foolishly literal in their attempt to imitate the example of Jesus.

Some of them have drawn out of the church and no longer attend, or they have removed their membership entirely to other churches.

Some are an element of internal strife, and I heard rumors of an attempt on their part to force Maxwell's resignation.

I do not know that this element is very strong in the church.


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