That is an old law in the Church of God: 'like
people like priest,' and 'like priest like people.' And while there are
various influences at work retarding and perplexing the immediate
operation of that law, at the same time, he who has eyes to see such
things in a congregation and in a community will easily see Hosea's great
law of congregational selection in operation every day. Like people
gradually gravitate to like preachers. You will see, if you have the
eyes, congregations gradually dissolving and gradually being consolidated
again under that great law. You will see friendships and families even
breaking up and flying into pieces; and, again, new families and new
friendships being built up on that very same law. If you were to study
the session books of our city congregations in the light of that law, you
would get instruction. If you just studied who lifted their lines, and
why; and, again, what other people came and left their lines, and why,
you would get instruction. The shepherds in Israel did not need to hunt
up and herd their flocks like the shepherds in Scotland.
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