It Would Have Saved Trouble Had I

The Soaring, Imaginative Minds Of Men, Constructing Lofty, Shimmering Piles Of Abstract Thought, And Taking As Their Postulate A Revelation From God, Gaveus Relgions Which Coule Not Possible Maintained Without Belief And Obedience: ... We Find Them Most Permanent And Changeless Among People Who Make The Least Effort To Swquare Their Beliefs With The Laws Of Life.

To-day There Is Hardly A Woman Of Intelligence In All America ... Who Is Not Definitely And Actively Concerned In Some Social Interest, Who Does Not Recognize Some Duty Besides Those Incident To Her Own Blood Relationship.

The Religious Need Of The Human Mind Remains Alive, Never More So, But It Demands A Teaching Which Can Be Understood. Slowly An Apprehension Of The Intimate, Usable Power Of God Is Growing Among Us, And A Growing Recognition Of The Only Worth-while Application Of That Power-in The Improvement Of The World.

The Time Is Approaching When We Shall Consider It Abhorrent To Our Civilization To Allow A Human Being To Die In Prolonged Agony Which We Should Mercifully End In Any Other Creature.

If Only Religion Could Be Brought To Take An Interest In This Earthly Future, What A Help It Would Be! ... Think Of The Appeal To The Less Spiritual Of Us, To Those Who Never Did Get Enthusiastic About Eternity, Or Care So Tenderly About Their Own Souls, Yet Who Could Rise To The Thought Of Improving This World For The Children They Love, And Their Children After Them.