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Whether a man's doctrine be high or low, he recognizes in the communion the carrying to its highest point the idea of worship, so that it cannot be confused with mere inward meditation. The Christian declares that God, although the ultimate reality, is so far personal that he can enter into relations with man. The supernatural nature of the events which led to the founding of the Christian Church, the idea of the cross, and of the immortality of the soul, are quite alien to that closed circle contemplated by the materialist philosopher and the more ornamental theory...
There are two tempers of mind found both in the Christian and the non-Christian faiths, the world-accepting and the world-renouncing tempers. The believer who accepts the world as a revelation of God and who finds in every human act and relation a deep meaning, believes in a better world because of the very incompleteness of this world. The nonbeliever looks forward to death because it closes all, and the believer because it does not. In the world-accepting view the believer tries to find God's will for man and following it he finds that...
...anarchy, greater than has been generally perceived because of the orthodoxy of the unthinking masses. But among trained philosophers there is intellectual chaos. There is no one voice sufficiently authoritative to carry with it any conviction beyond a personal preference. The tendency is growing, not to deny God, but to neglect His influence in daily life...
January 24.--"Augustine, and the City of God...
Charles Evans Hughes, lawyer, governor, and judge, who, beset by foes, has fought with firmness in the right as God gave him to see the right; now a guardian of our institutions in a tribunal that demands both the learning of the jurist and the wisdom of the statesman...