Christianity, you all know, is spreading-though I am not sure that the results are equal to the energy put forth. Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organization-social institutions, armies, governments, and so forth. But when it comes to preaching religion, they cannot come near the Asiatics, whose business it has been all the time-and they know it, and do not use too much machinery. If it were a fact that only one of these religions was true and all the rest were false, by this time it would have covered the whole world.
All religions sometimes advance, sometimes decline.
So it is not always progress. In every country, probably, if the statistics were taken, you would find that the religions sometimes progress and sometimes go back. Sects are multiplying all the time. Not fifty years pass before there are twenty sects founded upon the same book. If God has put all the truth in certain books, He does not give us those books in order that we may quarrel over texts.