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is interpreted and sustained. He learns to tread these dim and 

 wondrous ways of human experience with assurance that they are 

 ways of reality, ways of order and of ordered meaning, not blind 

 imaginings of a land of dreams. He is led by healthy processes out 

 of the region of critical indifference, wherein he can never grasp the 

 reality of religion at all, into the realm of moral adventure, where he 

 tests the uncertainties and solves the perplexities of life by bringing 

 them into contact with every-day obligations, and then he gathers 

 up the results of his inquiries and the broadening experience of his 

 mind and heart into a confident sense of relationship to an infinite 

 life. In realized sonship he finds constraining evidence of father- 

 hood. Thus it is that religion meets the normal man of this genera- 

 tion. It takes us in the attitude of mental reserve, and leads us 

 through moral experience into spiritual life, to where we acknow- 

 ledge that, though clouds and darkness are still around the Infinite 

 Source of all, yet righteousness and judgment are the habitation of 

 his throne and underneath are the everlasting arms. When a life 

 has come into realization of this deepest meaning of its being, it has 

 entered into the secrets of power, into "the privileges of the immeas- 

 urable mind." 



