bre of a man; it is
the loyal union of a man with those values of life which have come
within his ken." Whatever mixture of magic, fear, ritual, and
adoration religion may have been in man's early days upon this earth,
it is now increasingly, and henceforth must be, that which concerns his
contact with the duties and possibilities of life. Such salvation is
an achievement which has personal and social conditions. It is not a
label nor a lucky number for admission into another world, but
something bought and paid for by effort. It is like character and
education, for these are but special instances of it.

The personal conditions of spiritual life are sanity, health, and a
capacity to be fired by consuming purposes. No one can be greatly
saved who has not a {9} soul capable of being touched in some measure
by what is sterling and significant. But one of the discoveries of
democracy is the wide distribution of this sensitiveness. The
spiritual is not something painful, but it is something which concerns
the quality of human life.

The social conditions of salvation are just as necessary. They are the
presence of institutions and arrangements which give opportunity to the
individual to develop himself. The individual must have a certain
amount of leisure and a chance for a vital education. He should have
some contact with beautiful things and the stimulus of association with
great causes. A healthy and sane society makes possible healthy and
sane individuals. It is especially desirable that society put its
emphasis on the right things. If it is permissible to speak of
society's salvation, we would say that it consists in the wise relation
of means to ends, the subordination of the economic side of life to the
moral, intellectual and artistic activities. A society which does not
order itself in this way is called materialistic; and such a society is
certain to contain numberless individuals who live at a far lower
spiritual level than they should. It is the very nature of religion to
condemn this falling short of loyalty to the finer values of life.

We have said that religion must be catholic in its count of values.
Moral souls may still be comparatively starved souls. One of the great
mistakes religion has made in the past has been this very lack of
sympathy for values of all kinds. For this very reason, religion has
often displayed a certain narrowness and harshness. Its loyalty has
frequently been a