Excerpt from The Christian Program

The religious man is continually asking two questions. The first is, What kind of a world am I living in? the second, What kind of a life shall I live? To these he is impelled by an instinct as deep as the soul and as wide as the race. This instinct assures him that the world of clod and cloud, of matter and motion, which his senses reveal is not the only world or the real world, and that life is more than the satisfaction of his bodily appetites and the exercise of his bodily powers. Hence come these questions about the world and life.

The answer to the first question he gives in his creed. This may be anything, the baldest materialism, the most seductive pantheism, or the most reverent Christian Theism. It will yet be his creed because it answers the first question. It might seem consistent to say that the answer to the second question is his system of ethics. But for the purpose of life, systems of ethics are too abstract, too unreal, too extended, and therefore they find their place in dry volumes on library shelves and not in human lives. It will be more correct to say that he answers the second question in his program of life.

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