The Duty of Christians Toward Their Fellows

To let their lights shine, not to force on them their interpretations of God’s designs, is the duty of Christians toward their fellows. If you who set  yourselves to explain the theory of Christianity, had set yourselves instead to do the will of the Master, the one object for which the gospel was preached to you, how different would now be that portion of the world with which you come into contact! Had you given yourselves to the understanding of his word that you might do it, and not to the quarrying it of material wherewith to buttress your systems, in many a heart by this time would the name of the Lord be loved where now it remains unknown – George MacDonald