When one who professes to serve God wrongs or injures a brother, he misrepresents the character of God to that brother, and the wrong must be confessed, he must acknowledge it to be sin, in order to be in harmony with God. Our brother may have done us a greater wrong than we have done him, but this does not lessen our responsibility. If when we come before God we remember that another has aught 59 against us, we are to leave our gift of prayer, of thanksgiving, of freewill offering, and go to the brother with whom we are at variance, and in humility confess our own sin and ask to be forgiven.

Dersom vanskeligheder mellem brødre ikke blev fremlagt for andre, men i en kristelig kærligheds ånd åbent drøftet mellem dem indbyrdes, hvor meget ondt kunne da ikke forebygges! Hvor mangen bitter rod, der besmitter mange, ville ikke blive tilintetgjort, og hvor inderligt og ømt kunne Kristi efterfølgere ikke være forenet i hans kærlig hed!