Then, suppose he should follow this up with the words of Peter, in reply to the three thousand on Pentecost, when they inquired, “What shall we do?” when he said, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,” or that he should also quote the instructions of Ananias to Saul: “Why do you tarry? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord;” what think you would become of the great union meeting and the wonderful co-operation of so many parties? They would disperse almost as rapidly as the Jews did from our Lord when he overthrew the tables of the money changers and drove them out of the temple. They would hear him no more. These great union meetings, in which many of different parties unite and co-operate, put a part of the word of God—the language of the Spirit of God—on the same level with their partisan peculiarities and opinions, and ignore all together, the human and the divine! They make no difference between the human and divine, in ignoring, but simply ignore the matters in which they do not agree, no matter whether human or divine. We make this difference; _we ignore all that is human_, and _recognize all that is divine_. The true union ground is _the divine_. We are not to unite simply on what we agree about. We may agree in the wrong—the erroneous—the false. The true ground is to ignore everything that did not come from God, and recognize everything that did come from God. The entire revelation from God to man is that on which to unite. All included in that is of supreme authority, and all not included in that is of no authority at all. Men may join in union meetings, co-operate in them or unite permanently in them, but so long as they are alliances, leagues or confederations, in an understood, settled and persistent ignoring of clear instructions from the Lord in reference to the way of salvation, the approbation of the Lord will not be there. It matters nothing about the number that unite in these meetings, nor the variety of different parties, nor how many conversions may be claimed, the approbation of the Lord is not there so long as his authority is ignored in deference to people that do not receive it. These meetings, the different parties pushing into them, and the various preachers participating in them, are simply demonstrations of the confused state of the public mind. Neither the preachers nor the people are settled. They are out at sea and ready for anything new, or anything better, but know not where to find it. They have become so bewildered that they can trust in almost anything, except the clear revelation of God. Whatever a man thinks is right, that is right to him, unless he thinks _the law of God is right_. They can not admit that that is right if a man _does think it is right_! But _it is right_, whether they think it is right or not, and will be right for ever and ever.