Excerpt from Religion for to-Day: Various Interpretations of the Thought and Practise of the New Religion, of Our Time
In the last group are three addresses, delivered shortly after the opening of the Great War, which may be taken as indicating one phase of the spiritual reaction which followed upon this stupendous event.
It is obvious that this collection of addresses, like every collection of the kind, lacks the merit of presenting a systematic and thorough treatment of the subject; and fails altogether to touch upon certain important aspects of the subject, as for example, immortality. Serious as these facts are, they are necessarily involved in the limitations of the scheme here adopted, and must therefore in the beginning be accepted and discounted. On the other hand, is the unquestioned advantage of such a collection in opening up new lines of thought, in offering a viewpoint and a method for the consideration of questions of religious theory and practice, in quickening by flashlight suggestions a curiosity to know and understand the whole system of thought, or gospel of religion, of which such glimpses are the momentary and therefore imperfect expression, and in communicating that contagion of the free spirit which is the Alpha and Omega of true religion not only to-day but yesterday and forever. If these addresses do no more than turn an occasional reader from the old religion to the new, help an occasional reader who has already abandoned the old to find the new, persuade an occasional reader who has found the new to rejoice and then convey the secret of his rejoicing to other hearts, I shall be well content.
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