It must not be supposed that the heathen religions present one unbroken front against the oncoming ranks of Christianity. Christianity is divided into sects, it is true; but these sects are but as the different regiments and divisions of an army. The banner of the Cross is at the head of the whole of this grand army, and it floats proudly over each regiment; the regimental banner is always placed beneath, and not above, the banner of the Cross. Hence the various denominations of Christians are not so many distinct bodies, fighting each other as well as fighting the common foe; but they are so many bands of soldiers, fighting, perhaps, each in its own way, yet all aiming to destroy the one common enemy, Satan and his works. But the divisions of heathen religious systems differ greatly from this. Many of them are so different from each other that there is hardly a trace of resemblance remaining. Each heathen religious system wages war against every other one. Buddhism is, perhaps, an exception to this, at least in its mode of warfare, for it seeks to swallow up every other system, to incorporate all other religions in its own and to destroy them by the change. In each of these systems, as well as in Hinduism, which we have now before us for consideration, there are many different sects. These vary very much more than the denominations of Christendom, and are constantly turning their guns upon each other. Thus God is making Satan to defeat himself, and will bring good to the world even out of the wicked one’s work. The sects of Hinduism overlap each other. Many Hindus are attached at the same time to several sects, and some of the gods are worshiped by all the sects in common. Following the national tendency of all heathen religious systems, Hinduism developed downwards. Sect after sect arose, each calling attention to some one prominent point in their faith, and setting all the other points far in the background. [Illustration: BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE HINDU TEMPLE AT CAWNPORE.]