ned numerous
adherents from amongst those who, finding it impossible to "stand upon
the old ways," were yet in need of an Idealism and an inspiration of
life. The teaching given weekly at its Sunday Services is summarised
in the following chapters, which are published under the impression
that some information respecting a Body which is content to make the
Moral life its ideal and reverence Conscience as "the highest, holiest"
reality, may be welcome to religious idealists generally. The volume
is altogether of an introductory character, and merely aims at
conveying the central truth of Ethical Religion expressed by Immanuel
Kant in the well-known words--_Religion is Morality recognised as a
Divine command. Morality is the foundation. Religion only adds the
new and commanding point of view._

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. ETHICS AND RELIGION
II. ETHICS AND SCIENCE
III. ETHICS AND THEISM
IV. IMMANUEL KANT, THE ETHICAL PHILOSOPHER
V. THE ETHICAL DOCTRINE OF COMPENSATION
VI. CONSCIENCE THE VOICE OF GOD AND THE VOICE OF MAN
VII. PRIESTS AND PROPHETS
VIII. PRAYER IN THE ETHICAL CHURCH
IX. THE ETHICAL ASPECT OF DEATH
X. THE ETHICAL ASPECT OF WAR
XI. THE ETHICS OF MARRIAGE
XII. THE ETHICAL CHURCH AND POSITIVISM
XIII. THE OLD FAITH AND THE NEW AS SEEN IN "HELBECK OF BANNISDALE"
XIV. THE RELIGION OF TENNYSON
XV. "THE UNKNOWN GOD"
XVI. "A CHAPEL IN THE INFINITE"
XVII. "THE OVER-SOUL"

MORALITY AS A RELIGION.

I.

ETHICS AND RELIGION.

Some fifteen years ago a discussion was carried on in the pages of one
of our leading monthlies on the profoundly important question, "The
Influence on Morality of a Decline in Religious Belief". Men of every
shade of opinion, from Roman Catholicism to Agnosticism, contributed
their views, and, as might well have been expected, they came to the
most contradictory conclusions. The Roman Catholic and Anglican
writers appeared to think that the mere husk of morality would be left
with the disappearance of Christianity; that a sort of enlightened
epicureanism, a prudent animalism, would sway the greater part of
mankind; in a word, that we should be "whited sepulchres," fair to look
on without, but "inside full of dead men's bones, and all filthiness".
The agnostic was no less certain that morality, which had outgrown the
cumbrous garments manufactured by theology, would get on equally well
in the handy raiment p