aul the values of life and put them down at their
true price, and so readjust our fundamental directions. The conduct of the
individual must rise in response to higher conceptions of the meaning and
possibilities of the life of humanity. Tolstoi has described his
conversion in the simplest terms in the introduction to "My Religion:"

"Five years ago faith came to me; I believed in the doctrine of
Jesus, and my whole life underwent a sudden transformation. What I
had once wished for I wished for no longer, and I began to desire
what I had never desired before. What had once appeared to me
right now became wrong, and the wrong of the past I beheld as
right. My condition was like that of a man who goes forth upon
some errand, and having traversed a portion of the road, decides
that the matter is of no importance, and turns back. What was at
first on his right hand is now on his left, and what was at his
left hand is now on his right; instead of going away from his
abode, he desires to get back to it as soon as possible. My life
and my desires were completely changed; good and evil interchanged
meanings. Why so? Because I understood the doctrine of Jesus in a
different way from that in which I had understood it before." ...
"I understood the words of Jesus, and life and death ceased to be
evil; instead of despair, I tasted joy and happiness."

Some seek religion to escape hell and attain heaven; some to attain a
perfect personality; some to bring in the Reign of God. Give cases.
Estimate the relative religious and social significance of these different
spiritual experiences.

Third Day: Baptism and the New Order

Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet,
Behold, I send my messenger before thy face,
Who shall prepare thy way;
The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Make ye ready the way of the Lord,
Make his paths straight;

John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism
of repentance unto remission of sins. And there went out unto him
all the country of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem; and they were
baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. And
John was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leathern girdle
about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey. And he
preached, saying, There cometh after me he that is mightier than
I, the latchet o