"There will be no divisions in heaven, and there ought to be none on earth among Christians." True, but the reason why Christians will all be one in heaven is that every one there will have confessed and judged all sin, and be filled therefore with the mind of God. That will make them of one mind and of one heart.

Let it be so here, and all divisions among the people of God will be at an end. How solemn is the thought! How responsible it makes each one of us! Our most secret individual ways have to do with the most public failures of the people of God. It is often, alas, when we walk in the greatest self-indulgence that we can most vehemently condemn the divided condition of God's people. To weep over it, and minister acceptably to God in the midst of the ruin, is quite another thing.