in manifestation, and the Holy Spirit’s administration shall yield to that of Christ.” (_c_) The Scriptures, however, distinguish between this invisible or universal church, and the individual church, in which the universal church takes local and temporal form, and in which the idea of the church as a whole is concretely exhibited. _Mat. 10:32_—“_Every one therefore, who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven_”; _12:34, 35_—“_out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. The good man out of his good treasure bringeth forth good things_”; _Rom. 10:9, 10_—“_if thou shalt confess with thy month Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved: for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation_”; _James 1:18_—“_Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures_”—we were saved, not for ourselves only, but as parts and beginnings of an organic kingdom of God; believers are called “_firstfruits_,” because from them the blessing shall spread, until the whole world shall be pervaded with the new life; Pentecost, as the feast of first‐fruits, was but the beginning of a stream that shall continue to flow until the whole race of man is gathered in. R. S. Storrs: “When any truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it,”—and we may add, not only in words, but in organization. So beliefs crystallize into institutions. But Christian faith is something more vital than the common beliefs of the world. Linking the soul to Christ, it brings Christians into living fellowship with one another before any bonds of outward organization exist; outward organization, indeed, only expresses and symbolizes this inward union of spirit to Christ and to one another. Horatius Bonar: “Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another’s soul wouldst reach; It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech. Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world’s famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.”