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anxious faith, have added soul development and 

 psychic power to human life. 



The mother who bowed in prayer, the father who 

 assembled his children around the family altar, 

 have added spiritual power to themselves and their 

 posterity for all generations. 



And it is the honest, home-loving, God-fearing and 

 praying mothers and fathers of the past three cen- 

 turies that have made the Anglo-Saxon race and 

 the civilization of to-day what it is. 



The Bible says truly, "to be spiritually minded 

 is life," and to be worldly minded is to lead us back 

 to pagan selfishness, when cruelty was a pastime, 

 and poisoning and assassination were fine arts. 



This book of God we call man is bound in imper- 

 ishable atoms that dissolve into viewless ether, and 

 are tied together with electric bands as pliable as 

 silk and as invisible as thought, and the spirit they 

 enwrap is as strong and enduring as omnipotence. 



The statement is often made to the prejudice of 

 religion that religion has been the cause of most 

 of the wars and cruelties that have desolated the 

 earth since the commencement of human history. 

 This is unjust and misleading. Until the formation 

 of our government, church and state were united 

 among all nations and politics and religion were 

 blended, and a purely religious war was impossible. 

 As to the miracles of the New Testament, if they 

 were all discredited the immaculate teachings of the 

 gospel would remain. The peculiar glory of Chris- 

 tianity is the regeneration it brings to man, putting 

 him under the law of love; and without miracles 

 we would still have vital, uplifting, heaven-inspiring 

 Christianity. 



