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facility of expression there will be discovered appropriate forms for celebrating the beauty of nature and of human nature, for assuring people of the goodness of life and of God, and for assisting the process of their own participation in this life. These new forms will not exclude some of the old forms. Perhaps they may be only modified manners of setting forth the old solution. It is for clergyman and artist alike to consider and develop how the church building may best serve to help people to the Joy of Salvation.

These things we have been discussing may be perhaps more clearly specified to the artist as Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Modern religion desires to make earnest with all these three. It desires to have ever fresh discovery, practice, and enjoyment of all these three. It desires constantly to minister these to all men. Let the architect do his best to build a House of God which men will feel to be open to All the Truth, where men may be led to live according to the Highest and most Brotherly Goodness, and enabled to enjoy the Beauty of the Whole of Life, and he will have been most highly successful.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Art and Religion. Contributors: Von Ogden Vogt - author. Publisher: Yale University Press. Place of Publication: New Haven, CT. Publication Year: 1921. Page Number: 242.
    
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