The Secret of Brotherly Love by Andrew Murray

TWENTY-SECOr D DAY.
©ne Stream or -a:wo Streams~
" The stick of Ephraim, and the stick
of Judah, I will make them one stick, and
they shall be one in Mine hand." ­
EzEK. xxxvii. 19.
I
F any one were to ask me :
which of these two do you believe " In
? ",
my answer would be : " In both."
" And why ? " " Because God has so
willed it." When the small stream of the
Africander people, with less than one
million souls, .was turned into the mighty
stream of the British Empire, with its
three hundred millions, it was God's will
that this should happen. It was His
will that in the great stream there should
be two streams, side by side. The two
nationalities, the smaller as well as the
greater, have each their own history,
their own national characteristics, and
their own special virtues and shortcomings.
In God's plan and council there
was room for both.
Why has there been such terrible strife
and discord over the question : One
Stream or Two Streams ? Because
people would not accept both viewpoints,
and accord to each its right. They
wanted one or the other, exclusively, in
the foreground. They forgot that God
had said : " What God hath joined
together, let not man put asunder."
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