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That spirits in unity with God must in the end be in unity with one another seems guaranteed by the very essence of religion. But what does “in the end” mean? Are we to ask more? and if we ask more, is it really asked in a religious spirit and interest? People who pray too much — it is an old folk-saying — pray themselves through heaven and out on the other side, and are set to herd the geese there. People who ask too many questions, claiming to be religious in asking them — it seems much the same. The shrewd old wives felt and saw perhaps that particularity and curiosity may harm the religious spirit. Science and Logic have their rights; but we must not confuse them with religion. What a man’s religion brings him, and what he cannot help receiving when he places himself humbly and sincerely in the attitude of religious faith, I should venture to suggest, let