reached is not a material abatement of the value of this fact of enlarged discussion. A certain deadness of dogma gives a sense of strength and security quite deceptive.

It belongs also to spiritual life to express itself in human sympathies and charity. These sympathies and charities are its most priceless product. Individual good-will, the watchfulness of nations over all their own, justice and integrity between nations, are on the gain. Not only were spiritual ideas never more clearly discerned than now; they have never been more efficacious in drawing out human affections.

This growth has all the features of a true evolution. (1) Each step has been joined in a real sequence with preceding ones. Our civilization and our faith send down tap-roots to the earliest stratum in the historic period. (2) This progress has, in each stage, retained the gains of previous times. Jewish theism is our faith, Grecian art our culture, Roman law our law. Far more than this, the slow composition of nations, which began away back in the great monarchies of the East, and which found a second acceleration in the middle ages in Europe, has yielded those bonds of strength which hold us together. (3) This growth is not merely serial; it has formed itself about one axis, one spiritual unfolding, increasingly pure and extended. Theism has given it a moral unity, which has united in impulse all its ministrations, especially in their bearings on the common mind. Without this prevailing idea, nothing continuous or permanent would have been