# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S26
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26 Proceedings of the twenty-fifth convention

service, since they are believing and beloved and partakers of the benefit." (1 Tim. 6:1, 2.) — Brothers live at peace with one another, and if disputes do arise, they seek to settle them in brotherly fashion and do not run to the secular court with them. "If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men." (Rom. 12:18.) "How dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? I say this to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you, no, not one, that shall be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another." (1 Cor. 6:1–10.) — It is not the way of brotherly love to go to law and to quarrel, but rather to admonish the erring brother, and indeed in all meekness and with all patience. "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear you, take with you one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen and a tax collector." (Matt. 18:15–17.) "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, you who are spiritual. And consider yourself, lest you also be tempted! Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." (Gal. 6:1, 2; cf. Rom. 15:14; James 5:19, 20; Luke 22:32.) — Brothers are glad to apologize where they have erred. "Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has anything against you, leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way first; be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him." (Matt. 5:23–25.) — Likewise brothers are also glad to forgive, not merely seven times, but seventy times seven. (Matt. 18:21–35.) — And such proofs of love the brothers furnish in abundance. "Finally, be all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous. Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing, but contrariwise blessing; knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing." (1 Pet. 3:8, 9; cf. James 1:19, 20; 5:9.) I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you hold fast to one another in one mind and in one judgment." (1 Cor. 1:10; cf. 1 Thess. 4:6.) "We exhort you, brethren: Warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. See that none render evil for evil unto any man, but