Precisely so is it with
that sacred energy which we call love. It can act entirely and
sincerely only in circumstances that harmonize and correspond with
itself. In order to carry Christianity into my daily life, the forms of
my daily life, all my relations to others, my household and my
business, must be in harmony with it.
If these forms are contrary to Christianity, the first thing for me, as
a Christian, to do, is to change them, to put them off, to be free from
them at whatever cost. If I am indeed filled and impelled by that
divine injunction, "Love one another," I cannot rest, I shall give
myself no peace, until it be possible for me to do so, not in my inward
spirit only, but in all my outward actions also. But how is this to be
done? How are the ultimate forms of my life to be brought into
correspondence with its central impulse? Plainly not by any spontaneous
and unconscious power, but by intellectual inquiry and voluntary
action. _Inspiration can discharge its whole mission only by the aid
of science._
Besides, the end of Christianity is not the salvation of individuals,
but the transfiguration of humanity; it cannot be accomplished in you
and me, but only in the whole race.
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