Brotherly love is seldom seen in our day just as it existed among the early Christians. With them it was a test of discipleship, an elementary principle, devoid of which, a man could not obtain, from saint or sinner, from angel or devil, even the name of Christian. Without this they did not pretend to consider themselves as the children of God. "We know," said they, "that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren." The absence of brotherly love was one of the criterions by which antichrist was to be known. Its presence was to furnish indisputable proof both of the divine mission of their Master and of their attachment to his cause.
Baron Stow — Baron Stow, Pastor of the Church in Baldwin Place, Boston, Efficiency of Primitive Missions. A Discourse Delivered before the General Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States, at Its Ninth Triennial Session, Held in the Oliver Street Baptist Church, New York, April 25, 1838 (Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1838), p. 14
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