Now the question must be asked, how are those who are Christians indeed, who adore in the inmost shrine of their spirit the true Christ, who believe that the Star of the East still shines in unveiled splendour over the place where the young child is, how are they to be true to their Lord?  Are they to protest against the tyranny of intellect, of authority, of worldliness, over the Gospel?  I would say that they have no need thus to protest.  I would say that, if they are true to the spirit of Christ, they have no concern with revolutionary ideals at all; Christ’s own example teaches us to leave all that on one side, to conform to worldly institutions, to accept the framework of society.  The tyranny of which I have spoken is not to be directly attacked.  The true concern of the believer is to be his own attitude to life, his relations with the circle, small or great, in which he finds himself.  He knows that if indeed the spirit of Christ could truly leaven the world, the pomps, the glories, the splendours which veil it, would melt like unsubstantial wreaths of smoke.  He need not trouble himself about traditional ordinances, elaborate ceremonials, subtle doctrines, metaphysical definitions.  He must concern himself with far different things.  Let him be sure that no sin is allowed to lurk unresisted in the depths of his spirit; let him be sure that he is patient, and just, and tender-hearted, and sincere; let him try to remedy true affliction, not the affliction which falls upon men through their desire to conform to the elaborate usage of society, but the affliction which seems to be bound up with God’s own world.  Let him be quiet and peaceable; let him take freely the comfort of the holy influences which Churches, for all their complex fabric of traditions and ceremony, still hold out to the spirit; let him drink largely from all sources of beauty, both natural and human; the Churches themselves have gained, by age, and gentle associations, and artistic perception, a large treasure of things that are full of beauty—­architecture and music and ceremony—­that are only hurtful when held to be special and peculiar channels of holiness and sweetness, when they are supposed to have a definite sanctification which is opposed to the sanctification of the beauty exterior to them.  Let the Christian be grateful for the beauty they hold, and use it freely and simply.  Only let him beware of thinking that what is the open inheritance of the world is in the possession of any one smaller circle.  Let him not even seek to go outside of the persuasion, as it is so strangely called, in which he was born.  Christ spoke little of sects, and the fusion of sects, because He contemplated no Church, in the sense in which it is now too often used, but a unity of feeling which should overspread the earth.  The true Christian will recognize his brethren not necessarily in the Church or sect to which he belongs, but in all who live humbly, purely, and lovingly, in dependence on the Great Father of all living.