From the earliest period of what we denominate the third angel’s message, the Testimonies have presented to this people the importance of unity in the work, and the counseling of the laborers together in order that this unity might be secured, as the following quotation from “Experience and Views” (1851) will show: “I saw that the shepherds should consult those in whom they have reason to have confidence, those who have been in all the messages, and are firm in all the present truth, before they advocate new points of importance which they may think the Bible sustains. Then the shepherds will he perfectly united, and the union of the shepherds will be felt by the church.”-page 52. COOD 114.3