"One brother suggested to me recently that the church of Christ is right where our digressive brethren were fifty years ago. The innovations that were introduced by them at that time have proved incapable of accomplishing the purpose for which they were originally introduced. Many of our ‘loyal’ brethren are beginning practices that fifty years’ trial have proved as failures in the Christian Church. Apart from the unscripturalness of such things, why should we pick up the discarded methods of others? In many quarters among the. digressives, on some phases of the work, these practices are being abandoned in favor of the Lord’s way of just using the methods given in the New Testament."