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as it is to those who view it as free individ 

 uals out in God s sunshine ? Is it strange 

 that all sorts of exploded theories, chimeri 

 cal schemes, and absurd conceptions of 

 &quot;natural rights&quot; and millennial possibilities 

 should find in such congregations a congenial 

 soil, and that we are from time to time con 

 fronted with a problem which it seems im 

 possible to solve : how to clarify this vision, 

 to couch the suffering eyes before it is too 

 late, and the incurable disaster falls upon 

 us ? The wonder under these conditions is, 

 I think, that sanity continues to be the rule 

 and has not become the exception, and that 

 somehow there is in the individual a suffi 

 cient repulsive power to enable him or her 

 for the most part to resist what would seem 

 to be the inevitable consequences of the 

 position. 



But these reflections cause one to pray 

 for some loop-hole through which humanity 

 may creep into a freer air, where the soul 

 can be regained. And I sometimes won 

 der whether the relief which we seek may 

 not yet be found in the age of electricity, 

 which is following upon the heels of the age 

 of steam. May it not be that the time is 

 coming, and even not far in the distant 

 future, when through storage battery or in 



