uniformity of doctrine cannot last, since the power of reasoning differs in degree in different persons.

Is it wise in the priesthood of established churches to remain stationary whilst the nations improve in civilization?

If the Sacerdocy do not keep path in arts and sciences with the community at large, their influence must diminish by degrees and finally cease altogether.

Since a variety of religious sects is unavoidble wherever the free use of reason is allowed, what should be their common tendency?

Each sect should endeavor to establish harmony in all branches of knowledge, physical, intellectual, religious and moral.

Is it possible for any church to become universal and permanent?

Yes; that church will become universal and lasting whose religious principles shall be founded on a knowledge of the true nature of man, which shall establish harmony among all the primary faculties of the mind, and which shall elevate religion to the rank of a science. Every religious idea that contravenes reason can only endure for a time.

What then should form the ground-work, and what the aim of that general religious reformation, whose necessity for the well being of man is so evident?

With reason and belief in harmony, knowledge and morality must be its foundation, and the universal happiness its aim. In other words, Christian morality ought to be taught in its purity, and become the essence of religious belief. The practice of the moral law should be a necessary obligation on every member of society; whether induced by reason or by faith, by love or by fear, all should be bound to conform to its precepts. No mystical conception, however, ought on any account to be arbitrarily imposed. Every one should be left free to reject or to adopt, according to conscience, any opinion which is not at variance with the true spirit of Christian and natural morality,-which is not inimical to the general peace and happiness.

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