my own. Granted an interested audience, or one that is willing to hear, I may well make my doctrine as persuasive as possible, putting my whole heart into my utterance. But if I really have the welfare of my fellows at heart, I shall not resort to the devices of the spectacular orator, but forcefully state my case in rational terms, leaving my hearers free to accept or discard. Only through appeal to reason can I expect to make normal converts, for if personal powers win' people before their time there will inevitably be a reaction. My part as a public teacher is to state universal principles so clearly that each may make application for himself. If I stimulate my listener to make the subject his own, I thereby aid him to become a law unto himself.

These are particularly hard sayings with respect to religious matters, for there are many in the world so devoutly persuaded that they have the only true creed that it is a delicate matter to insist on the standards of universal reason. Yet one is unable to make an exception. The chief difficulty rests in the fact that the proselyters and highly confident people fail to realise that in the last analysis their appeal is to individual experience. Believing that they are humbly sustaining biblical and ecclesiastical authority, it seems plain that the personal equation is thrown wholly out of account. But press them for conclusive evidences