part is marked with circumstances equally as suspicious.

We ought, therefore, to be reverentially careful how we ascribe books as his word^ of which there is no evidence, and against which there is abundant evidence to the contrary, and every cause to suspect imposition.
In your report, you speak continually of something by the name of worship, and you confine yourself to speak of one kind only, as if there were but one, and that one was unquestionably true.
The modes of worship are as various as the sects are numerous ; and amidst all this variety and multiplicity there is but one article of belief in which every religion in the w^orld agrees. That article has universal sanction. It is the belief of a God, or what the Greeks described by the word Theism^ and the I^atins by that of Deism. Upon this one article have been erected all the different superstructures of creeds and ceremonies continually warring with each other that now exist or ever existed. But the men most and best informed upon the subject of theology rest themselves upon this universal article, and hold all the various superstructures erected thereon to be at least doubtful, if not altogether artificial.
The intellectual part of religion is a private afiair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical