As this clarifying process goes on it is to be expected that the number of possible groupings of men in re ligious affairs will diminish. As occurs in political life when old lines of party division have become obliterated by the growth of many new interests that do not fit into the normal scheme of working parties, after long years of confusion, in some new crisis of the nation's life, the great, permanent issues lead again to new and more significant re-formations, so it must be with the movement of religious thought. After the present long interval of petty sectarian strife, there must come a readjustment along the lines of real and permanent oppositions. Men will see that after all the minor compromises have been made there remain issues on which no compromise is possible. After all the non essentials have been eliminated, there remain a few things on which men will insist as essentials, and they will insist with all the more zeal because these things are few.

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