They would not be the highest in
the estimation of any church, for the childlike are not yet the many.
It might not even be those that knew most about the former visit of the
Master, that had pondered every word of the Greek Testament. The first
to cry, 'It is the Lord!' would be neither 'good churchman' nor 'good
dissenter.' It would be no one with so little of the mind of Christ as
to imagine him caring about stupid outside matters. It would not be the
man that holds by the mooring-ring of the letter, fast in the quay of
what he calls theology, and from his rotting deck abuses the
presumption of those that go down to the sea in ships--lets the wind of
the spirit blow where it listeth, but never blow him out among its
wonders in the deep. It would not be he who, obeying a command, does
not care to see reason in the command; not he who, from very barrenness
of soul, cannot receive the meaning and will of the Master, and so
fails to fulfil the letter of his word, making it of none effect. It
would certainly, if any, be those who were likest the Master--those,
namely, that did the will of their father and his father, that built
their house on the rock by hearing and doing his sayings.
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