the exclusive property of any particular sector church. It is the common property of all sects and churches. The members of all sects and churches should regulate their conduct according to its dictates. A man is pious in proportion as he does so. There is an astonishing agreement between the really pious of all denominations in their sayings and acts, but no agreement between the pious and the impious of the same denomination. The pious of at sects and churches, true servants of the Lord, under whatever strange name or disguise they may be concealed, form an ideal universal church by themselves. There can therefore be no sect in the Essential Religion. Besides, a number of men, banded together and calling themselves Essential Religionists, must have a particular conception of the Deity and future state and follow a particular mode of worship. This particular conception and particular mode of worship would at once determine them as a sect. These particular conceptions of God and future state and modes of worship give rise to religious sects among mankind. Every individual man cannot avoid joining a sect according to his own particular convictions.
Differences of religion must always exist in the world. To quote Parker again: “As many men so many theologies.” As it is impossible to obliterate differences of face and make all faces exactly resemble each other, so it is difficult to obliterate distinctions of religion. Differences of religion have al-
