Its Christ deals with men apart from each other and furnishes no cohesive element to humanity.

The validity and necessity of religious organization as a moral force of Divine appointment is that one of the Catholic principles which it has from the beginning most vehemently rejected.

As a negative force its essence is a protest against organic Christianity.

As a positive force it is simply men, taken one by one, dealing separately with God concerning matters strictly personal.

True, it is a fundamental verity that men must deal individually with God; but the external test that their dealings with Him have been efficacious, and their inspirations valid, is furnished by the fact of their incorporation into the organic life of Christendom.