In the following passage some of the words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank our of the four alternatives.

"I am proud to (I) ____________ to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance (2) ___________ universal acceptance," he declared (3) ___________ September 11. 1893, "We believe not only in universal toleration, (4) ___________ we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the (5) ____________ of all religions and all nations of the earth".