After reading a few ethical books and after considering the Christ-idea and the idea of God from the ethical point of view, a person may go and talk to a friend who has simple faith in Jesus Christ and has never considered ethics or science or philosophy but has always held a picture of the Lord before him, fearing to displease the Lord, devoted to him. He may say "There is no such person as Jesus Christ. He never came to earth; it is a myth; it is only an ethical ideal." What happens? The plant of devotion, the ideal in the heart, the plant that grows and develops more and more is broken by him, and his friend is driven either to shut the doors of his heart, which should be protected, or to give up his faith. To yield is to go astray, and yet not to yield may be to go astray also.