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Excerpt from The Christian Union Quarterly, Vol. 14: Interdenominational and International; July, 1924
Religious controversy has played havoc with the Church, especially with the Protestant.\ section, where almost every theological Opinion has culminated into a separate denomina tion. Thomas Campbell of the Seceder Presbyterian Church was a prophet of the new order of adjusting difierences by conference rather than by controversy. In his Declaration and Address he pleaded for the method of conference and prayer. This was the method of Jesus and is now and eternally the method for unity. It was unfortunate that this movement broke with the Presbyterian Church, in which it was so deeply rooted. It became a separate body, taking the name Disciples of Christ. They had the right start, but they got on the wrong road. They abandoned the method of conference and adopted the method of controversy in public debate and in the press. While they grew rapidly and are now the largest Christian communion in America that had its origin here, numbering a million and a half, nevertheless, had they held to their original policy of conference and prayer, they would have numbered five to ten tmes what they do now and would have been a real factor in the unity of American Christianity.
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