The churches sing very vigorously about the day when all the saints shall gather in one congregation, but they would have the time deferred till everybody turns each church's way. They beat the broad and plain principles of the Bible into spears and swords to fight doctrinal combats and dispute over creeds. But defer liberal Christianity as they may, it is coming, and that irresistibly.
"The weapons which your hands have found
Are those 'which Heaven itself has wrought,
Light, Truth, and Love;— your battle-ground
The free, broad field of Thought."
"When by grace from on high ourself has attained its full stature, then the elements become its subjects, and even its slaves, instead of simply servants, which they were before."
