Excerpt from Selections From the Letters of Thomas B. Gould With Memoirs of His Life The various Christian testimonies which they were thus led to promulgate to the world, were parts of one great divine law, fruit of one tree - branches of the one stem, - even of the princi ple of Light and Life in the hearts of the faithful. They found that a close adherence to this holy law written in the heart brought them into a true unity and fellowship with Christ and one with another; and they saw that all departures from the unity of this faith had their beginning in a departure from this law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, by which an entrance was allowed to the Tempter to beguile and lead astray; so that none who had once known the truth could depart from and oppose any part of this fabric of doctrines, but they who had first de parted in heart from that which was the corner-stone thereof. Thus their endeavors to restore transgressors and those who had fallen away from any of the testimonies of their profession, were principally or primarily directed towards awakening again a sin cere and humble dedication of heart to the Lord in his inward manifestations; knowing that if the Witness for truth could be raised again into dominion in that heart, the branches which had withered would soon recover their vitality and health. Yet they ceased not, for all this, to point out the errors which such were in, and faithfully and openly to testify against them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.