The final reformation is on.  “Final,” I say, because it leaves nothing to be restored as regards either doctrine, practise, or spirit.  It stands committed to the restoration of the whole truth and the harmonious unity of all true Christians in one Christ-ruled, Spirit-filled body.  In short, it stands committed to the restoration of apostolic Christianity in its entirety—­its doctrines, its ordinances, its personal regenerating and sanctifying experiences, its spiritual life, its holiness, its power, its purity, its gifts of the Spirit, its unity of believers, and its fruits.  This reformation will continue until it becomes a great mountain and fills the whole earth, until “the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High.”

Nor is this picture of events a mere dream of fanciful idealists; for it is already true in part, and the “more sure word of prophecy” to which we have appealed sustains our hope.  The actual fulfilment of so many predicted events assures us that there shall not fail one word of all his good promises.  Already multiplied thousands of the Lord’s redeemed people have discerned God’s plan of effecting unity and have completely ignored all the lines of sect and human ecclesiasticism, recognizing as the church nothing else than the entire brotherhood in Christ, and recognizing as ecclesiastical authority nothing else than that moral and spiritual dominion of Christ by which alone he governed his people in primitive times.

This reformation is the movement of God.  It is not a humanly organized movement depending for its success on the ability of men to persuade people to leave other churches and join them.  God himself is breaking down the barriers that divide, and in response to his call the redeemed are forsaking human sects and creeds, and their hearts are flowing together.  The center of this movement is not a particular geographical location, nor is its nucleus a particular set of fallible men:  the center and nucleus of this world-wide movement is OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, and its operative force is the SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD, which draws the faithful together in bonds of holy love and fellowship.  Multitudes already recognize no other bonds of union than that moral and spiritual affinity which is the common heritage of all the disciples of Jesus that know the blessed experience of the heavenly birth.  Multitudes more are beginning to see the light of this glorious truth, and in due time Christ, the Light, will illuminate the hearts of all the saved ones.  All hail the day that lies just ahead!

  “Back to the one foundation, from sects and creeds made free,
  Come saints of every nation to blessed unity. 
  Once more the ancient glory shines as in days of old,
  And tells the wondrous story—­one God, one faith, one fold.”