Evolution and Faith 



faith fails, all is lost. Here home and school 

 can help no longer. Only the church remains as 

 the center of this highest education in life. They 

 need instruction. They need far more hope, 

 courage, power, inspiration, the true interpreta- 

 tion of the riddles of life and the world, the 

 meaning and value of their training, mutual aid 

 and support, the encouragement of hopeful el- 

 ders, the inspiration and contagion of the life of 

 great souls of all ages. They must form the 

 habit of viewing the commonest things of com- 

 mon life from the standpoint of the distant goal 

 and end, and thus to become intelligent. 



When Pilgrim had been refreshed and in- 

 structed in the Interpreter's House and had set 

 out for the Delectable Mountains, he straight- 

 way descended into the Valley of Humiliation. 

 Here the distant view was lost, and clouds and 

 mist settled down; he found pitfall and snare, 

 bog and mire, battle and wounds. He was hard 

 put to it. Christiana passed that way later, and 

 is told by Greatheart that that valley is " as 

 fruitful a place as any the crow flies over." 

 Happy the man or woman who has a Greatheart 

 for a guide, and Hopeful, Valiant-for-truth, and 

 old Honest for companions through that valley. 



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