rfection. Not by dwarfing but by developing themselves do men
glorify their Creator. Just as the finest tree in the forest speaks
most eloquently of the bounty and beauty of nature, so does the
gigantic intellect glorify the intelligence that ordered its being.

Fear not to think of sacred things; nothing is sacred because it is
mysterious; reverence does not dwell apart from reason. Faith does not
reach its perfection in the fool; it shines most glorious where wisdom
dwells. There still are the superstitious souls who confound darkness
with divinity; who cry aloud against the light of knowledge. But they
can no more stay the discovery of truth than the bats can hold back the
dawn.

NEW TRUTHS FOR NEW DAYS

There are many who think they must live without religion because they
cannot be content with the views held by their fathers. The facts on
which the faith of the past was based have come into the light so that
the modern man, examining them, finds himself in all honesty compelled
to question them and often ultimately to call them fables.

The attempt to answer the questions of the clear-eyed modern scientific
mind by accusing it of inherent antagonism to religion is cheap and
ineffectual. There are honest doubters who at the same time are
earnest seekers after truth, who desire the best, who are willing to
pay any price for personal character and social righteousness.

It is because such men are honest that they refuse to be bound by
creeds they cannot believe and to buttress beliefs they cannot indorse.
No greater loss could come to character than to insist that we shall
act and speak a lie in order that the body of religious teaching shall
remain undisturbed. The heresy we most need to fear is that which
blatantly declares one thing while at heart fearing that another is
true.

The old generation in religion is accusing the new of treason to faith
and the new is accusing the old of blindness to truth. When the father
says to the son, "Believe this or be lost," the son answers that he
rather would be lost in company with truth and honesty of conscience
than be saved at the cost of both.

But do these divergencies mean that the man of the modern mind must
give up religion and that those who hold to the traditional views can
find no fellowship with those who see new light? This is more than an
academic question; it presses on every man who, finding in him the
universal thirst for religion, finds