every noble purpose, in every earnest endeavor to uplift ourselves or
our fellowman, in every thought that turns us from the evil of a
repented past, in every desire with which our hearts yearn to
strengthen, support and sustain our friends and even our enemies,
shines forth the image of Almighty God. This it is that links us with
the Eternal: this it is that makes it worth while that we should be
Eternal. Besides this what are hands and ears and eyes? We are made,
all in us that is noblest and highest, in the image of our Maker.

A word in closing. The time is ripe for a broader conception of
theology and of science on the part of those who are not trained to be
specialists in either. We are becoming more and more inherently
religious. We are becoming more and more enamored of the truth in all
its forms. The times are ripe for us to cease the struggle and to
strive for peace. So long as men insist that the important things in
faith are the things on which men differ there will be eternal strife.
So soon as men endeavor to find the common ground between them and
each tries to state his belief in forms acceptable to himself but
involving no hostility to his neighbor, we shall be working for peace.

Some of our finest men of to-day are being trained in modern science
and in modern theology. There is no scorn in their minds for early
science or for early theology. Each served its age, and each taught
its truth. But its truth must be restated in terms of to-day. The old
creeds will always be loved. The old creeds will always hold our
reverence and allegiance. But each age must be at liberty to interpret
these creeds in the terms in which that age best understands truth.
Each age must be at liberty "to restate the doctrines of the past in
accordance with the newness of the age and with the ancient verity of
truth." How feeble my own attempt is in this matter, I quite
understand; I am still a child of the struggle. It has all come in my
lifetime and I have seen and felt not a little of the bitterness of
it. I believe the time is ripe for a definite peace. I believe our
children, if we do not hamper them, will never know the struggle we
have had. In every great institution throughout this broad land men of
earnest mind and noble soul are teaching the truth as God gives it to
them to know the truth. Let us not hesitate to entrust our children to
their hands. To us they may seem to be teachers of discord but they
are not speak