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we dreamed. The Brahman Reformer and the 

 Christian Priest are different, indeed, in their grasp 

 of truth ; different in the way they would set it 

 forth ; different in their life history. The Brahman 

 never lived to realize the truth of the God-Man, 

 of the divine mission of the Church of Christ, of 

 the reality of Sacramental grace. But his life was 

 true, and real, and great. Can any doubt that its 

 earnest seeking after God shall have its own 

 reward ? Yet it would have been so easy to say, 

 We have nothing in common with him ; we do not 

 worship the same God. 



So it is that again and again we misread the 

 world around us, seeing the outside differences of 

 things, while their real but hidden unity is lost. 

 And if some unexpected points of likeness force 

 themselves upon our notice, we put them aside as 

 curious parallels, which do not suggest to us a 

 common origin, a kinship which is real. 



Is it not so in the case of those two highly- 

 developed systems which stand over against one 

 another in England of to-day, once identified, then 

 associated, but now, as it seems, drifting apart, 

 Theology and Law? Here it is so easy to point 

 the contrast between the Divine Science, and that 

 which exists only because man is what he is, and 

 not what God made him to be. It is easy to say, 

 they do not speak the same language, their modes 

 of thought are not the same. The one soars 



