Testimonies for the Church, Volume 9 - Ellen G. White

heaven there is one grand meeting place.
I must write plainly regarding the building up
of partition walls in the work of God. Such an
action has been revealed to me as a fallacy of
human invention. It is not the Lord's plan for His
people to separate themselves into separate
companies, because of differences in nationality
and language. Did they do this, their ideas would
become narrow, and their influence would be
greatly lessened. God calls for a harmonious
blending of a variety of talents.
I again repeat the words of Christ. I would
impress them deeply upon your minds. "Neither
pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on Me through their word; that they all may
be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee,
that they also may be one in Us: that the world may
believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory
which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they
may be one, even as We are one: I in them, and
Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one;
and that the world may know that Thou hast sent
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