and with all his heart:  “I have said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord.”  I have no goodness, no happiness, that is outside Thee or outside the saints that are in the land, “the excellent in whom is all my delight.”  Here we touch another great characteristic of all true faith which is full of example to ourselves.  It is remarkable how, when a man really turns to God, he turns to God’s people as well, and how he includes them in the loyalty and in the devotion which he feels toward his Redeemer.  His confidence and the sensitiveness of his faith in and toward God become almost an equal confidence and an equal sensitiveness toward his fellow believers.  So it is throughout Scripture; you remember that other psalmist who tells us how he had been tempted to doubt God’s providence and God’s power to help the good man—­“does God know and is there knowledge in the Most High?  Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocency.”  The psalmist immediately adds:  “If I had spoken thus, behold I had dealt treacherously with the generation of God’s children.”  If I had spoken thus, denying God, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of God’s children.  Unbelief toward God meant to him treason toward God’s people; and the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews affirms the same double character of true faith when he emphasizes just these two points in the faith of Moses:  “choosing to suffer affliction with the people of God,” and “enduring as seeing Him who is invisible,” and God Himself through Jesus Christ has accepted this partnership of His people in our loyalty—­“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me.”  I do not believe in the full faith of any man who does not extend the loyalty he professes to God to God’s people as well, who does not feel as sensitive to his brethren on earth as he does to his Father in heaven, who does not practise piety toward the Church as he does toward her Head, or find in her fellowship and her service a joy and a gladness which is one with his deep joy in God, his Redeemer.  Nay, is it not just in loving people who are still imperfect, often disappointing, and far from their ideal it may be, that in our relations to them we are to find the greater proof and test of our religious faith?  In these days such a duty is unfortunately more complicated than with the psalmist.  The lines between God’s Church and the world is not so clear as it was to him, and the Church is divided into many and often hostile factions.  All the more it becomes the test of our religion if our hearts feel and rejoice in the fellowship of God’s simpler and more needy and more devoted believers, however unattractive they may otherwise be.