THE EQUINOX
“The least perfect act of love is worth more than the best
act of piety.”
“Judge not ; speak hardly at all ; love and act.”
Another prophet came and said: “ Protest against bad
doctrines by good works, but do not separate yourselves.
“ Rebuild all the altars, purify all the temples, and hold
yourselves in readiness for the visit of the Spirit.
“Let every one pray in his own fashion, and hold com-
munion with his own ; but do not condemn others.
“A religious practice is never contemptible, for it is the
sign of a great and holy thought.
“To pray together is to communicate in the same hope,
the same faith, and the same charity.
“The sign by itself is nothing; it is the faith which
sanctifies it.
“Religion is the most sacred and the strongest bond of
human association, and to perform an act of religion is to
perform an act of humanity.”
When men understand at last that one must not dispute
about things about which one is ignorant,
When they feel that a little charity is worth more than
much influence and domination,
When the whole world respects what even God respects in
the least of His creatures, the spontaneity of obedience and the
liberty of duty,
Then there will be no more than one religion in the
world, the Christian and universal religion, the true Catholic
religion, which will no longer deny itself by restrictions of
place and of persons.
“Woman,” said the Saviour to the woman of Samaria,
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