Such are all the sincere followers of the Lamb, the faithful and elect of God: all in their various spheres of life, high and low, rich and poor; living in the same Spirit and by the same gospel, unto the same redeeming Lord; and travelling together in one way to the same everlasting kingdom. They are all brethren; all of equal privileges in the sight of their God and Saviour; all, however wide their worldly differences, however diversified their appearances or acquirements, distinguished by the same holy signs—by the sign of the cross in their forehead; by the image of the cross in their heart; by the bearing of the cross in their lives, and treading in the footsteps of their divine Master. “To me to live is Christ:” this is the common language, this the good confession, this the joyful, thankful assurance of each and every one: this their watchword, this their safeguard and defence, this their abounding consolation, one with another, amid all the dangers of an ensnaring and harassing world. The rich man has no other protection, and no other does the poor man need; Christ is “all in all,” and “none can pluck them out of His hand;” dwelling together, as in a strong tower; “kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.” Each of them still, while in the body, attentive to the duties of his own calling: no earthly business or occupation, belonging to their respective conditions, despised or neglected; but all “done heartily as unto the Lord, and not as unto men:” all earthly desires so regulated, all earthly plans so formed, all earthly objects so pursued, as not to interrupt, much less to stifle, the life of God in the soul.