# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S14
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14 Proceedings of the twenty-fifth convention

have put on Christ." (Gal. 3:27.) "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ!" (Rom. 13:14.) Put him on as one puts on a coat, for covering, for warmth, for protection.

Christ's blood and righteousness,
That is my adornment and robe of honor;
With that I will stand before God
When I enter into heaven.

The body of Christ is clothed ever more with the coat of sanctification. "Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." (Eph. 4:24.) "Put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bear with one another, and forgive one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also. And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you are also called in one body; and be thankful." (Col. 3:10–15.) "Hold fast to humility" (original text: Put on humility as your badge). "For God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time." (1 Pet. 5:5, 6.)

To what end has God made us into the body of Christ? "God has so tempered the body together, . . . that there should be no schism in the body" (1 Cor. 12:24, 25), so that the members may not be at variance with one another, and one rise up against another. "For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot should say: I am not the hand, therefore I am not of the body, should it for that reason not be of the body? And if the ear should say: I am not the eye, therefore I am not of the body, should it for that reason not be of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? But now there are many members, yet but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand: I have no need of you; or again the head to the feet: I have no need of you; but much more those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary." (1 Cor. 12:14–22.) When we are not content with our office and calling, when we envy our neighbor, we thereby rebel against God, who has set the members, "each one of them in the body, as it has pleased him." (1 Cor. 12:18.) We many are one body, since we all partake of one bread, the bread which is the communion of the body of Christ. (1 Cor. 10:16, 17.) In view of this blessed fact we should also be peaceable and helpful toward one another.