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faithfully done may bring the soul fulfilment of its 

 aspirations, but adoring love becomes the spring of 

 the religious life — love for him who, we now know, 

 has from eternity first loved tis, and is himself essen- 

 tially Love. The aim of such a religion is not 

 merely to "glorify God"; rather, it is to glorify 

 all souls, as all in the image of God ; to glorify them 

 by fulfilling for every one of them its vocation to 

 repeat in a new way the life of universal love that 

 is the life of God, and thus to attain, through the 

 universal greatening, such a real glorification of 

 God as other forms of religion seek after in vain. 

 The God of Christ is indeed one who comes "not 

 to be ministered unto, but to minister," and who 

 illustrates in his own Person the great and char- 

 acteristic truth spoken by Jesus, " He that findeth 

 his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life shall 

 find it." 



Not exaltation, not isolation, not might, not being 

 merely the centre of devotion rendered by others, — 

 not any of these lordly things is truly divine. But 

 to be an active member in a society where all alike 

 strive to recognise the infinite worth, the boundless 

 possibilities, of all the others ; to be the inspiration 

 and the uniting spirit of such a society ; to give him- 

 self eternally and exhaustlessly for it and for ever)- 

 member in it, — this, according to Jesus, is what 

 makes God tJic God of the living and not the God 



