Yes: people _will_ be different one from another. There are
diversities of gifts. Differences in talents, in powers, in
character, in kinds of virtue and piety; so that you shall find no
two good men, no two useful men, like each other. But there is the
same Spirit. The same Spirit of God is in each, though bearing
different fruit in each. And there are differences of
administrations, of offices, in God's kingdom. God sets one man to
do one work, and another to do another: but it is the same Lord who
puts each man in his place, and shows him his work, and gives him
power to do it. And there are diversities of operations, that is,
of ways of working; so that if you put any two men to do the same
thing, they will most probably do it each in a different way, and
yet both do it well. But it is the same God, who is working in them
both; the God who works all in all, and has his work done by a
thousand different hands, by a thousand different ways.
And it is right and good that people should be so different from
each other. 'For the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.' To profit, to be of use. If all men were
alike, no one could learn from his neighbour. If all mankind were
as like each other as a flock of sheep, there would be no more work,
no more progress, no more improvement in mankind, than there is in a
flock of sheep.
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