One  limit,  I  rejoice  to  believe,  is  already  reached,  as
regards  this  process  of  division,  and  a  consequent  reaction
may,  accordingly,  be  hoped  for.  No  longer  is  it  possible
for  any  man  to  think  it  a  matter  of  ambition  to  become
the  founder  of  a  sect.  For  this  business  of  sect-making
is  already  quite  overdone,  and  the  products  turned  out,
in  later  times,  are  so  indifferently  small,  because  of  the
number,  that  when  the  busy  leader  gets  his  name  stuck
upon  a  small  platoon  of  adherents,  it  seems  to  be  a  judg-
ment of  God  upon  him  thus  to  expose  him  to  ridicule.
Henceforth  the  once  powerful  motives  of  ambition  are
taken  away  from  the  activities  of  dogmatism,  and  now
there  is  nothing  left  us,  in  fact,  but  to  strive  after  the
Head  ;  to  draw  the  bleeding  members,  if  we  may,  of
Christ's   lacerated   body   together,   and    have   it   for  our


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most  blessed  and  pure  reward,  to  see  them  coalesce  and
live.
And  to  hasten  such  a  result,  we  must  disallow,  as  un-
christian, all  human  schools  and  names  of  men.  The
time  was  when  it  was  a  somewhat  brave  demonstration
for  a  man  to  declare  that  he  was  not  a  Calvinist,  or  not
the  disciple  of  some  other  human  name.  Possibly  there
are  men  who  would  think  it  a  little  heroic  to  do  so  now.
