WE are living in a time of religious ferment.
What shall we do? Attempt to keep the new
wine in the old bottles? That can only end in
destroying the bottles and spilling the wine.
Attempt to stop the fermentation? Impossible!
And if possible, the only result would be to
spoil the wine. No! Put the new wine into
new bottles, that both may be preserved. Spir-
itual experience is always new. It must there-
fore find a new expression in each age. This
book is an attempt to restate the eternal yet
ever new truths of the religious life in the terms
of modern philosophic thought.

The teachers in the modern church may be
divided into three parties: one is endeavoring
to defend the faith of the fathers and the forms
in which that faith was expressed; one repudi-
ates both the faith and the forms; one holds
fast to the faith, but endeavors to restate it in

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