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convincible mind. Its whole tendency is to- 

 ward higher ideals, and it is this idealism that 

 is thrusting old forms aside in order that it 

 may find the precious crystal of Truth. 



Just now it seems as if we were left some- 

 what adrift in our faiths ; but this is because 

 we have not yet been able to readjust and re- 

 state our religious outlook. Religious experi- 

 ence is undergoing a new birth, but we shall 

 not cut loose from the past. We shall keep 

 all that is divine. We shall formulate a new 

 theology that will be more helpful than the old. 



It is asserted that the modern evolution 

 studies tend to decrease church-going. I do 

 not think this is because these studies antago- 

 nize religion ; but the man who comes fresh 

 from a study of objects and phenomena often 

 finds the service and the sermon so contrary to 

 what he observes is the course of nature that 

 they fail to hold his interest. They may seem 

 to him narrow and inadequate and verbal, and 

 therefore the church may depress rather than 

 stimulate him. 



On the other hand the layman, immersed in 



