---
title: 'The Unity of the Church'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'James Addison Quarles, Sr.'
date: 1888-04-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
- 'Church History'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 11'
- 'Acts 2'
- 'Acts 4'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/quarles-1888-the-unity-of-the-church
---

# The Unity of the Church

Survey of church divisions from medieval schisms to modern denominations, highlighting harms (strife, scandal, wasted resources) and the impracticality of enforced union.

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