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alism. Loyalty to truth must compel one to worship where he shall find emphasis laid upon his essentials. But the individuality that goes through several creeds, proclaiming each alike, should wait until assured beyond recall that it has reached its final truth. Not the sprouting, but the full blossoming, mind becomes the willingly recognized leader. The sprouts of growth often prove abortive. Intense individuality, which makes one search for truth, keeps one from rendering apparent homage to another's truth on the plea that religion is only a matter of life, rather than of intellectual opinion. A doctrine in the long changing of human interests is a greater force than a man, and one's individuality and one's reason must be very slight if loyalty to ideas can be subserved to the personal gratification of self-improvement, supposed to be effected by regular attendance on a service whose creed is disbelieved. The line of difference should always be drawn at the farthest point;