A new spirit of love service and sacrifice in humanity.

A new and ever developing life in art, literature, music, philosophy, government, industry, worship.

A relief from the heavy burden of remorse for past errors, blunders, and sins.

An ever growing aspiration for the future and an ever increasing power toward achievement.

Faith in ourselves and in our fellow men; in our infinite possibilities because in our infinite inherit

ance.

Faith in the great enterprise in which God's loyal children are engaged, that of making a new world out of this old world, a faith which failure does not discourage nor death destroy.

Faith in a Leader who both sets us our task and shares it with us; the longer we follow him and work with him, the more worthy to be loved, trusted and followed does he seem to us to be.

Faith in a companionable God whom we cannot understand, still less define, but with whom we can be acquainted, as a little child is acquainted with his mysterious mother.

Faith in our present possession of a deathless life

of the spirit, which we share with the Father of our spirits and our divinely appreciated leader.

The autobiography of the unknown author of the one hundred and third psalm is the story of our past experience:

Bless the Lord, O my soul,

And forget not all his benefits:

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;

Who healeth all thy diseases;

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;

Who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender

mercies;

Who satisfieth thine age with good;

So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.

The prayer of the apostle to the Gentiles is the expression of our hope for the future:

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he will grant you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might, by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with

all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.

EPILOGUE

HOWARD S. BLISS was associated with me in the pastorate of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, for four years. Then, after a successful independent pastorate in New Jersey, he accepted a call to become the successor of his father, the Reverend Daniel Bliss, as President of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, Syria. During the Great War (19141918) he preserved the College despite the machinations of astute and powerful foes, and maintained peace within the College between students who belonged to the races and shared the religious faiths of those who were grappling in deadly strife without. Then, his task accomplished, he came home to die. Eager student, loyal friend, chivalric soldier, patriotic American, devoted Christian, his last message to his generation was an article in the Atlantic Monthly published a few weeks before his death. From this, the culmination of his great career, I quote the following sentences which I would gladly make the culmination of my life's teaching:

Does Christ save you from your sin?

Call Him Savior!

Does He free you from the slavery of your passions?

Call Him Redeemer!

Does He teach you as no one else has taught you? Call Him Teacher!

Does he mold and master your life?

Call Him Master!

Does He shine upon the pathway that is dark to

you?

Call Him Guide!

Does He reveal God to you?

Call Him the Son of God!

Does He reveal man?

Call Him the Son of Man!

Or, in following Him, are your lips silent in your incapacity to define Him and His influence upon you?

Call Him by no name, but follow Him!