6, closes their mouths with this uncompromising gag: "They shall make no remarks explanatory of the Lesson-Sermon at any time during the service." It seems a simple little thing.

One is not startled by it at a first reading of it; nor at the second, nor the third.

One may have to read it a dozen times before the whole magnitude of it rises before the mind.
It far and away oversizes and outclasses the best business-idea yet invented for the safe-guarding and perpetuating of a religion.

If it had been thought of and put in force eighteen hundred and seventy years ago, there would be but one Christian sect in the world now, instead of ten dozens of them.
There are many varieties of men in the world, consequently there are many varieties of minds in its pulpits.

This insures many differing interpretations of important Scripture texts, and this in turn insures the splitting up of a religion into many sects.