Viewing it from the standpoint of the Spiritual Life, he finds that it fulfils the conditions that religion should fulfil.

It is based on freedom, and on the presence of the Divine in humanity, even to the extent of a complete union between them.

The ideal of the Christian life is a personal life of pure inwardness, and of an ethical character.

He speaks of the "flow of inner life by means of which Christianity far surpasses all other religions," and of the "unfathomable depth and immeasurable hope which are contained in the Christian faith." In Christianity the life of Christ has a value transcending all time, and is a standard by which to judge all other lives.

There is, too, in Christianity a complete transformation or break, which must take place before any progress or development can take place.
"There is no need of a breach with Christianity; it can be to us what a historical religion pre-eminently is meant to be--a sure pathway to truth, an awakener of immediate and intimate life, a vivid representation and realisation of an Eternal Order which all the changes of time cannot possess or destroy." At the same time, there are changes necessary in the form of Christianity, if it is to answer to the demands of the age, and be the Absolute Religion.