xliv INTRODUCTION 



its best is an expression of poetry, art, harmony; ele- 

 ments intimately associated with the God Idea. 



Science has developed the spectroscope, microscope, 

 telescope and a score of other observing, measuring, 

 tabulating instruments. It has discovered, measured 

 and analyzed the nearest and minutest forms of life, 

 and the most distant and colossal. In this way it has 

 vastly extended and expanded, beyond anything re- 

 ligion has ever known, the elements, achievement and 

 character of the Supreme Architect. Between the 

 Deity of organized religion and that of research, in 

 this particular, a gulf wide and deep is fixed; which, 

 of course is one reason why science and religion per- 

 petually misunderstand each other. Behind the elec- 

 tron with its wonder-challenging, incessant activity, 

 and the giant star-cluster recently discovered at the 

 Mount Wilson Observatory which is moving away 

 from the earth at the rate of 7,200 miles a second, may 

 be an Infinite control — science is not denying it. This 

 control, traditional religion with its restricted meth- 

 ods, never can find. Until it broadens its horizon 

 considerably it never can comprehend the light, the 

 glory and the majesty of this tremendous Cosmic 

 Force. According to the best in religion God is a 

 creating, sustaining activity. Between this hypothesis 

 and the hypothesis of contemporary science there is 

 no conflict. But between the method and the practice 

 there is a wide difference, which makes cooperation 

 diflicult. 



Probably the conceptions of God in the minds of 

 men of research, and those in the minds of sectarians 

 are as far apart as the antipodes; so that when the 

 two talk of Eternal Reality, and of religion also, they 



