l things which the mere intellectual convictions cannot--make
hearts beat and eyes sparkle, that would not respond even to
digitalis and strychnine. I claim that the boy is justified in saying
that his kite exists in the heaven, even though it is out of sight and
the string leads round the corner, on no other presumption than that
he feels it tugging. I prefer to stand with Moses in his belief in the
Promised Land, and that we can reach it, than to believe that the
Celestial City is a mirage.

This attempted analysis of my religious life has revealed to me two
great changes in my position toward its intellectual or dogmatic
demands, and both of them are reflections of the ever rightly changing
attitude of the defenders of our Christian faith. "Tempora mutantur et
nos mutamus in illis." Christians should not fret because they cannot
escape adapting themselves to the environment of 1918--which is no
longer that of 918, or 18. The one and only hope for any force,
Christianity no less than others, is its ability to adapt itself to
all time.

I still study my Bible in the morning and scribble on the margin the
lessons which I get out of the portion. I can only do it by using a
new copy each time I finish, because it brings new thoughts according
to the peculiar experiences, tasks, needs, and environments of the
day. I change I know. It does not--and yet it does--for we see the old
truths in new lights. That to me is the glory of the Scriptures.
Somehow it suits itself always to my developing needs. Christ did not
teach as did other teachers. He taught for all time. We find out that
our attitude to everything changes, to the things that give us
pleasure and to those that give us pain. It is but a sign of healthy
evolution (in this chapter, I suppose I should call it "grace") that
the great churches have ceased to condemn their leaders who are
unsound on points which once spelt fagot and stake. To-day
predestination no longer involves the same reaction, even if dropped
into a conference of selected "Wee Frees." The American section of the
Episcopal Church has omitted to insist on our publicly and
periodically declaring that we must have a correct view of three
Incomprehensibles, or be damned, as is still the case in our Church of
England.

I am writing of my religion. The churches are now teaching that
religion is action, not diction. There was a time when I could work
with only one section of the Church of God. Thank God,