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out the one-sect or one-church plan they were com- 

 pelled to torture and murder vast numbers of good 

 people of other beliefs. Even the Apostles wanted 

 to try their hand at the one-church business: they 

 reported to Jesus that some people were teaching 

 Christianity but were not "following after US;" 

 and Christ answered: " They that are for us can- 

 not be against us." 



One cannot long observe Nature's modes of 

 action which are God's before discovering 

 that dissimilarity is the supreme rule and that 

 homogeneity is the exception. Nature is ever de- 

 veloping new genii, families, breeds, sub-breeds 

 and varieties without end. The vegetable and 

 lower-animal kingdoms thrive in groups innumer- 

 able and fulfill the purposes for which they were 

 created; so why should mankind with infinitely 

 higher functions and nobler aims be confined to one 

 race or one color, one form of government or a 

 single church? 



We are happily becoming free Truth is mak- 

 ing us so and no longer must diverse races and 

 beliefs be coerced into narrow traditional grooves. 

 I am glad there are so many varieties of churches 

 and of vegetables for now I can select those which 

 will best promote my spiritual and my physical de- 

 velopment. There are not even yet enough 



