than your way,' is the only really antiquated kind of
worship. The sooner we all learn to lay that aside, not in lavender
and tissue paper, but to cast it away utterly and forget that it ever
existed,--the better._

_It is not a bit of an excuse for us when we are inclined to judge
other people critically, to read in these stories that some of the
early Friends did and said harsh and intolerant things. They lived in
a much harsher, more intolerant age than ours. The seventeenth
century, as we know, has been called 'a dreadfully ill-mannered
century.' Let us do our very best not to give any one an excuse for
saying the same of this twentieth century in which we live. Thus, in
reading of these Quaker Saints, let us try to copy, not their
harshness or their intolerance, but their unflinching courage, their
firm steadfastness, their burning hope for every man; above all, their
unconquerable love._

_Remember the old lesson of the daisies. Each flower must open itself
as wide as ever it can, in order to receive all that the Sun wants to
give to it. But, while each daisy receives its own ray of sunshine
thankfully and gladly, it must rejoice that other very different rays,
at very different angles, can reach other flowers. Yet the Sun Heart
from which they all come is One and the Same. All the different ways
of worship are One too, when they meet in the Centre._

_Therefore it is not strange that at little secluded Come-to-Good,
where the blue doves of the columbines keep watch over the quiet
graves, I should remember a message that came to me in another, very
different, House of God--a magnificent Cathedral far away in South
Italy. There, high up, above the lights and pictures and flowers and
ornaments of the altar, half hidden at times by the clouds of
ascending incense, I caught the shining of great golden letters.
Gradually, as I watched, they formed themselves into these three words
of old Latin:_

DEUS ABSCONDITUS HEIC.

_And the golden message meant:_

'_GOD IS HIDDEN HERE._'

_That is the secret all these different ways of worship are meant to
teach us, if we will only learn. Let us not judge one another, not
ever dream of judging one another any more. Only, wherever our own way
of worship leads us, let us seek to follow it diligently, dutifully,
humbly, and to the end. Then, not only when we are worshipping with
our brothers and sisters around us, in church, chapel, g