do not participate with you in this common love to Jesus Christ.

I dread talking mere sentiment about this matter, for there is
perhaps no part of Christian duty which has been so vulgarised and
pawed over by mere unctuous talk, as that of the fellowship that
should subsist between all Christians. But I have one plain question
to put,--Does anybody believe that the present condition of
Christendom, and the relations to one another even of good Christian
people in the various churches and communions of our own and of other
lands, is the sort of thing that Jesus Christ meant, or is anything
like a fair and adequate representation of the deep, essential unity
that knits us all together?

We need far more to realise the fact that our emotions towards our
brother Christians are not matters in which our own inclinations may
have their way, but that there is a simple commandment given to us,
and that we are bound to cherish love to every man who loves Jesus
Christ. Never mind though he does not hold your theology; never mind
though he be very ignorant and narrow as compared with you; never
mind though your outlook on the world may be entirely unlike his.
Never mind though you be a rich man and he a poor one, or you a poor
one and he rich, which is just as hard to get over. Let all these
secondary grounds of union and of separation be relegated to their
proper subordinate place; and let us recognise this, that the
children of one Father are brethren. And do not let it be possible
that it shall be said, as so often has been said, and said truly,
that 'brethren' in the Church means a great deal less than _brothers_
in the world. Lift your eyes beyond the walls of the little sheepfold
in which you live, and hearken to the bleating of the flocks away out
yonder, and feel--'Other sheep He has which are not of this fold';