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to God, it ought to unite them to each other. There should 

 be, at least, the desire to be right to see and accept the truth; 

 and always the charity that never faileth, and which is the 

 greatest of Christian virtues. 



God is one. Nature is one, because He has created creates 

 it, presides over it, and it is the expression of His Wisdom, 

 Power, and Goodness. Religion is one, the relation of man to 

 his Creator. There cannot be two contradictory revelations, 

 or true creeds, or churches. Men born and educated in error 

 cannot be blamed for it; to wish to be right is, in the highest 

 sense, to be right; but we are bound to use our reason to use 

 our best efforts to see what is right, and heartily accept it. A 

 man should no more persist in error in religion than in science. 

 He should no more adhere to a false faith than to a false mul- 

 tiplication table, or false weights and measures. It would be a 

 great convenience if all men had the same weights and measures, 

 as well as the same principles of calculation, and it is more 

 important that they should have the same religious faith, the 

 same principles of conduct, the same bond of union to God 

 and to each other. A considerable uniformity in modes of 

 worship would also be a great convenience, and will become 

 more so when the facilities for travel are increased, as they 

 soon will be. All the people of one village should be able to 

 worship God in one assembly, with the beauty and grandeur of 

 such unity; and not, as now, divide up into a dozen little 

 chapels and conventicles. There is something very grand and 

 noble in a great cathedral with its assembled thousands of wor- 

 shippers, all uniting in solemn acts of prayer and praise. It 

 seems very clear that the world can never become Christian, 

 until Christians are united. Hindoos and Chinese, Buddhists 

 and Mahommedans, have the right to say : First agree among 

 yourselves as to what you wish us to believe, and then we will 

 listen to you. 



The first thing to determine seems to be this : Has God, by 



