them to be the be-all and end-all of religion. Really pious polytheists and idolaters such as Ramprasad of Bengal, Tukaram of Maharashtra and Tulsidas of Upper India are very much against laying undue stress on forms and ceremonies. They are vehement in their denunciation of overfondness for such observances. There is astonishing agreement between the really pious of all ages and countries in this respect. In short, even once thinking of God amidst worldly business, speaking even a single truth when we are strongly tempted to speak untruth, restraining even once anger or any other passion under strong provocation, going even once to the hovel of a poor man to help good is infinitely better than writing thousand learned dissertations on theology, conducting thousand controversies on the subject of regligion, performing thousand religious ceremonies and attending thousand religious festivals and processions.
We should not only regulate our own conduct by an eye to the essentials of religion but, while propagating the religion we profess, we should draw men's attention more to love of God and love of than than doctrinal points. We are morally culpable before God if we lay greater stress on the husk instead of the kernel of religion.
The Essential Religion does not admit of church organization. There can be no such sect as the Essential Religionists. The Essential Religion is not
