"If some dogmas are incomprehensible and some rites superstitious," he seemed to say, "what does it matter?
Let us emphasize the ethical and spiritual content of Christ's message, for if we seek his kingdom, all else needful shall be added unto us." His favorite name for his religion was the "philosophy of Christ," [Sidenote: Philosophy of Christ] and it is thus that he persuasively expounds it in a note, in his Greek Testament, to Matthew xi, 30: Truly the yoke of Christ would be sweet and his burden light, if petty human institutions added nothing to what he himself imposed.

He commanded us nothing save love one for another, and there is nothing so bitter that charity does not soften and sweeten it.

Everything according to nature is easily borne, and nothing accords better with the nature of man than the philosophy of Christ, of which almost the sole end is to give back to fallen nature its innocence and integrity.

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