Jesus Christ was the founder neither of religion nor of a religion. If religion be the life of God in the soul of man, that existed long before Jesus Christ came into the world. Not to go outside of Judaism, it was seen in Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, and the long line of patriarchs and prophets of Jewish history. If religion be such a manifestation of God as produces a moral influence on the life and character of man, that also had existed, both within and without Judaism, long prior to the time of Christ. Jesus Christ was not, therefore, the founder of religion. It was founded in the beginning, when God created man in his own image and breathed into him the breath of a spiritual life. Nor was he the founder of a religion. A religion, as distinguished from religion, is a particular and organized type of the life of God in the soul of man. It is a particular form of moral and spiritual organization, resulting from some specialized perception of that manifestation of God to man which is as universal as the race. Each religion has therefore its own specific expression or embodiment: an intellectual expression in a creed or theological system; an emotional expression in a ritual or liturgy; and an organic expression in an institution or institutions. Christ gave to his disciples neither a creed, a liturgy, nor rules for the construction of an ecclesiastical organization.