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THE RELIGIOUS PROBLEM IN INDIA
color? Does he choose only the emerald or the ruby, the topaz or the amethyst, the pearl or the diamond, and make the Imperial Crown of one color and of one set of jewels only ? No, no; he takes every color and every jewel that he can find on the surface of the world, and seeks fresh shades, fresh hues and fresh colors ; he rejoices when he finds some new shade in the emerald or the ruby that will add one glint more to the Imperial Diadem. So with the religions of the world. Each Religion is a jewel with its own color; each religion is a gem with its own hue; and all are taken by the mighty Jeweller, in order to form the crown which He will place on the brow of Humanity. He takes every gem with its own color and does not try to make it like its neighbor, but rather mlike, the more umlike the better; He fastens them together with the gold of Love, He sets them in the setting of knowledge, and at the very top, He places the Kohinoor of the Divine Wisdom, the white diamond which las in it every color and shows no one hne alone. Such is the crown of the future, such is the diarlem that God is preparing for llumanity; and when it is ready and every religion is set in love and in knowledge, then God will place it on the head of the Son of Man, and Humanity, enthrone on earth, will at last know its unity and know it is one with the Divine Oneness. Who then, in that glorious clay, shall regret the chillienlties of the past, when the splendid cousmmation is reached,
