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money for sectarian purposes. Denomi- 

 nations do not need to go, if the Spirit 

 always controls ; and yet I believe as we 

 now know them they will go ; at least there 

 will be between them conference and mut- 

 ual service, and never rivalry and ambition. 

 When will the kingdom come ? Not until 

 the heathen see more of Christ and less of 

 human mechanisms ; and the work at home 

 will fail except all branches of the Church, 

 for practical purposes, are in perfect har- 

 mony. Before that day dawns, what an 

 amount of rubbish must be swept away ! 

 What selfishness and conceit masquerad- 

 ing in garments of loyalty to conviction 

 must be unmasked ! World-wide move- 

 ments require cosmic energy, and cosmic 

 energy is the spirit which unifies and uses 

 nationalities and individualities, rituals 

 and creeds, for the kingdom of God. 



V. But suppose we have this spirit, so 

 that the prayer of Jesus is a reality, and 

 we are one even as he and the Father are 

 one — what then ? Will all be realized ? 

 By no means. The kingdom grows. The 

 way of the spirit is the way of life, and 

 that is a mystery. The course which it 

 will pursue no analysis can follow; but 



