Well may we conclude that the children of the infinite King should ornament the planet which offers them a home. They should possess great minds, great souls, should pursue great callings and enact and obey great laws because they are the sons of the Deity. This is the new fundamental truth under whose influence Christianity is assuming a new beauty and a new usefulness. Heaven envelops our race with a new affection. In the book called the "Liber Amoris" the poet, gifted but now gone from this life, thus alludes to the coming church:
"A mightier church shall come whose covenant word
Shall be the deeds of love. Not Credo then—
Amo shall be the passport through its gates.
Man shall not ask his brother any more
Believest thou? but lovest thou and all
Shall answer at God's altar: Lord, I love.
For hope may anchor, faith may guide but love
Great love alone is captain of the soul."
But this great love means the exaltation of man. Into that one term education, liberty and all culture and happiness empty themselves. As the word genius signifies a mind that always expresses itself in something most delightful to society so a church of love is a power that expresses itself in all the shapes of human welfare. The love is not that painted by the novelist, but rather that which is used to delineate the whole portrait of a God.— Selected.
