meaning of churchmanship. 'Ye are members one of another.'

Various specific obligations follow from this general principle.

(a) _Truthfulness and openness_; for falsehood and concealment belong
to a life of separated and conflicting interests. The prophetic ideal
for the restored Israel is to be realized among Christians. 'Speak ye
every man truth with his neighbour: execute the judgement of truth and
peace in your gates: and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts
against his neighbour: and love no false oath[2].'

(b) _Self-restraint in temper_. We must not injure one another in life
and limb, or wound one another in feelings. Therefore we must watch
the first beginnings of anger, as the Psalmist[3] warns us, lest they
lead to sin and give {186} the devil, i.e. the slanderer of his
brethren, the inspirer of all mutual recriminations, room and scope to
work in.

(c) _Labour for the purpose of mutual beneficence_. Under the old
covenant God had contented Himself with forbidding stealing. Under the
new covenant the prohibition of what is wrong passes into the
injunction of what is right. Labour of whatever kind, labour directed
to produce something good, is required of all. 'If any man will not
work, neither let him eat[4].' The idle man in fact violates the
fundamental conditions of the Christian covenant as truly as if he were
denying the rudiments of the Christian faith. Now the object of
labouring is to acquire 'property,' which is in one sense 'private,'
and in another sense is not. The labourer may have, under his own free
administration, the fruits of his labour, but he is to administer his
property with the motive, not only of supporting himself, but of
helping his weaker and more needy brethren.

(d) _Profitable speech_. Here again the Christian is not to be content
with avoiding noxious conversation. His talk is to be, not indeed
'edifying' in the narrowest sense, but such as {187} 'builds up what is
lacking' in life, or supplies a need, whether by counselling, or
informing, or refreshing, or cheering; so that it may 'give grace[5],'
that is, afford pleasure and, in the widest sense, bring a blessing to
the hearers.

In all their conduct Christians are to have two masterful thoughts.
(1) They are to think of the divine purpose of the Holy Ghost who has
entered into the Church to 'seal' or mark it as an elect body destined
for full redemption from all evil, in body and soul, at the cl