contribution may have started with a zeal for Christ, but it ended with an indiscriminate rejection of everyone out of conformity with Darby’s ideas: “He [God] has told us when the church was become utterly corrupt, as He declared it would do, we were to turn away from all this corruption and those who were in it, and turn to the scriptures” (Darby, Writings, 20:240–41 [Ecclesiastical Writings, no. 4, “God, Not the Church”]; quoted by Bass, p. 106). From there Darby ended up saying that only the