144 THE LIGHT OF DAY 



a higher ideal. Calvinism has long outraged men's 

 reason, but it got along very well till it began to 

 impinge upon their moral sense, their sense of jus- 

 tice, of mercy, of fitness. Reason can be silenced, 

 but "infant damnation" arouses something that 

 will not, at this age of the world, be silenced. 

 The ideal of Calvinism is beginning to topple, and 

 when this is the case with a creed its power for 

 good is gone. 



This, then, seems to be the truth with regard to 

 reason : — 



It is the lamp by which our feet are guided, but 

 in no sense the power that determines the course 

 we are seeking. Just as we use a lamp to help find 

 our way, or to disclose to us some object for which 

 we are searching, so we use reason to light up our 

 course and to help us to ends of the desirableness 

 of which we were already convinced. 



