How much misery would have been saved to Europe if Christians had been
satisfied with the Sermon on the Mount!
Bokhara is said to have contained more than three hundred colleges, all
occupied with theology, but ignorant of everything else, and it was
probably one of the most bigoted and uncharitable cities in the world.
"Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth."
We must not forget that
"He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small."
Theologians too often appear to agree that
"The awful shadow of some unseen power
Floats, though unseen, among us"; [1]
and in the days of the Inquisition many must have sighed for the cheerful
child-like religion of the Greeks, if they could but have had the Nymphs
and Nereids, the Fays and Faeries, with Destiny and Fate, but without
Jupiter and Mars.
Sects are the work of Sectarians. No truly great religious teacher, as
Carlyle said, ever intended to found a new Sect.
Diversity of worship, says a Persian proverb, "has divided the human race
into seventy-two nations.
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