CHRISTIAN UNITY IN THE LIGHT OF OUR LORD’S TEACHING AND OF APOSTOLIC TIMES, by the Rev. THOMAS HOUGHTON, Editor of “The Gospel Magazine,” London: Gospel Magazine Office, 23 Bedford Street, Strand, C.2. Price, 2d.
This excellent pamphlet is a reprint from “The Gospel Magazine.” Mr. Houghton deals in a scriptural way with Christian Unity. He rightly points out that our Lord’s prayer for unity is not the kind of unity that is so much sought after in our day and so much stressed by ecclesiastical leaders. “It is the corporate unity of the various visible Churches,” he rightly says, “for which so many are working. For such a unity the Lord does not pray. His prayer has reference only to those who through divine grace are living believers in Himself, as the true and only Saviour of His people.” That is well and fitly said and it would be a good thing if advocates of union in all the Churches would cease misapplying our Lord’s words to a kind of unity he never prayed for. The pamphlet deserves a wide circulation. It contains truths which need to be emphasised in our day and as these are backed up by Scripture references it will be found useful and instructive.