_pray_ to an empty
image in the air? to trust in sorrow a creature of thought which is but
a phenomenon of sorrow? No, if religious communion is reduced to a
monologue, its essence is extinct and its soul is gone. It is a living
relation, or it is nothing: a response to the Supreme Reality. And
vainly will you search for your spiritual dynamics without the Rock
Eternal for your [Greek] _pou sto_'--JAMES MARTINEAU, Essays iv. 282,
_Ideal Substitutes for God_.

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APPENDIX VIII

'It is an awful hour--let him who has passed through it say how
awful--when life has lost its meaning and seems shrivelled into a
span--when the grave appears to be the end of all, human goodness
nothing but a name, and the sky above this universe a dead expanse,
black with the void from which God himself has disappeared. In that
fearful loneliness of spirit ... I know but one way in which a man may
come forth from his agony scathless: it is by holding fast to those
things which are certain still--the grand, simple landmarks of morality.

'In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else
is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no
future state yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish,
better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false,
better to be brave than to be a coward. Blessed beyond all earthly
blessedness is the man who, in the tempestuous darkness of the soul,
has dared to hold fast to these venerable landmarks. Thrice blessed is
he who, when all is drear and cheerless within and without, when his
teachers terrify him and his friends shrink from him, has obstinately
clung to moral good. Thrice blessed, because his night shall pass into
clear bright day.'--F. W. ROBERTSON, _Lectures, Addresses, etc._, p. 49.

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APPENDIX IX

'Let me say at once that if after the elimination of all untruths from
Christianity, we could build a belief in God and Immortality on the
residue, we should then have a far more powerful incentive to right
conduct than anything that I am about to urge.'--PHILIP VIVIAN,
_Churches and Modern Thought_, p. 323.

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APPENDIX X

'Without prejudice, what would be the effect upon modern civilisation
if the Divine Ideal should vanish from modern thought?

'It would be presumptuous to attempt a description, rather because it
is so hard to picture ourselves and our outlook deprived of what we
have held during t