Not the phantom of a Hellenistic metaphysic; not the Redeemer and Judge of a misunderstood Judaism; not the mere ethical prophet of a German professorial theology; but the King of a spiritual kingdom, receiving allegiance, and asking love, from the free consciences of men; repeating forever in the ears of those in whom a Divine influence has prepared the way, the melting and constraining message: "This do in remembrance of me." "'Of me--and of all the just, all the righteous, all the innocent, of all the ages, in me--pleading through me--symbolized in me! Are you for Man--or for the Beast that lurks in man? Are you for Chastity--or Lust? Are you for Cruelty--or Love? Are you for Foulness or Beauty? Choose!--choose this day.' "The Christ who thus speaks to you and me, my brethren, is no longer a man made God, a God made man. Those categories of thought, for us, are past. But neither is he merely the crucified Galilean, the Messianic prophet of the first century. For by a mysterious and unique destiny--unique at least in degree--that life and death have become Spirit and Idea. The Power behind the veil, the Spirit from whom issues the world, has made of them a lyre, enchanted and immortal, through which He breathes His music into men. The setting of the melody varies with the generations, but the melody remains. And as we listen to it to-day, expressed through the harmonies of that thought which is ourselves--blood of our blood, life of our life--we are listening now, listening always, as the disciples listened in Nazareth, to the God within us, the very God who was 'in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself.' "Of that God, all life is in some sense, the sacramental expression. But in the course of ages some sacraments and symbols of the divine are approved and verified beyond others--immeasurably beyond others. This is what has happened--and so far as we can see by the special will and purpose of God--with the death-unto-life--with the Cross of Christ.... "The symbol of the Cross is concerned with our personal and profoundest being. But the symbol of the Kingdom is social, collective--the power of every reformer, every servant of men....