Promoting the Holiness of Christadelphian Fellowship

My request is, that if you agree with me, you will sign and return the declaration which you will find at the end of this letter. Addressed to me at the Athenæum Rooms it will reach me in my retirement; and on my return, I will ask you to meet me at the Athenæum Rooms, on Thursday night, October 30th, that our united declaration may be promulgated, and that we may take such further steps as the new situation will call for; after which it will be necessary to redraw ecclesia roll, that we may know who thereafter constitute the Birmingham ecclesia, on the basis of the unadulterated truth.

Thus may we hope to secure unity and peace at the table of the Lord, in the company of those who, in all humility before God, and zeal for His name, are waiting for His Son from heaven, in full desire with all diligence to purify themselves from the works of the flesh, and bring forth the fruits of the Spirit, in love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance.

Those who do not join in this act will remain in fellowship with those who deny the truth, and will disconnect themselves from those who may unite in stepping aside from a connection which has become a fountain of every evil work. Please then, if you think well so to do, sign and return (not later than Sunday, October 26th, addressed to me at the Athenæum Rooms, Temple Row), the Declaration on the back of this sheet.

Robert Roberts.

Tuesday, Oct. 14th, 1873.

DECLARATION ¹

I do not agree with the doctrine concerning Christ which has emanated from Nottingham, in the Tract entitled “Thirty-two Questions” and otherwise, within the last three months. On the contrary, I believe that Jesus, in the days of his flesh, was a manifestation of God, in the mortal nature of David, and, therefore, inheriting, in his flesh, equally with ourselves, the mortal effects of descent from Adam, from which, by the Father’s power, he was himself delivered by obedience, death, and resurrection; and is now the deliverer of all who truly come unto God by him. I hereby withdraw from all who do not believe this.