James Says

James says that the source of infighting lies in the pursuit of passions. James Robert Johnstone, the nineteenth-century Scottish theologian and preacher, remarked: Men and women who on the Sabbath have sat side by side at the Lord’s table and drunk of the common cup of love, will scowl at and calumniate and thwart each other all the week. And the feeling between congregations or denominations, which are but different companies or brigades in the army of the Captain of salvation, is not unfrequently such as to remind one of the host of Midian in the night of Gideon’s victory, when “every man’s sword was turned against his fellow, throughout all the host.”