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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...To doubt them is to doubt God. To fear them is to forget the eternal arms that are round about us. The symbols of the religion of democracy are to be found in the home, the school, the shop, and the State. The hum of industry arising from the work of men and women who serve the ends of the Infinite, who share the divine process, is to be the anthem of democracy. It has no priests, but its prophets are the poets and seers, men of vision and insight, who point out the "only way." The religion of democracy creates its own forms from age to age. The present it holds debtor to the past, but the future it holds as master of both. The man whose religion is interpreted in terms of democracy finds in the great, living, vital movements of the day soul-compelling power, which impels him to worship. He knows it is not of his strength, but that the eternal strength gives him power. He yields himself to the "power which makes for righteousness." He finds, in yielding to the larger life, the greater power, the deeper insight, which give him a consciousness of the cosmic forces working in him. Not in his own feeble strength does he go against the citadel of sin, whose walls are ignorance, vanity, and greed, cemented by tradition and buttressed by the dead weight of human inertia. The religion of democracy reveals to man the unlimited store of energy at his command: the lightnings and the tides of the spiritual world are at his disposal. Let them be directed by the hand of even a youth, and they in time will beat down all the massive bulwarks of sin. It is this sense of power, power to be and to do, power to uplift and direct, power to shape and create the future, that gives the religion of democracy its joy. It takes man out of...