A "working faith," one that can face the facts and meet the needs of life.

     The age just passed one of science, criticism, and in-creased material power; these have not met spiritual needs or moral weakness. The return to faith.

          THE OBJECTIONS.

     From Evolution: No need of God to explain the world. Evolution as science to be distinguished from evolution as philosophy. Can not explain source or end of the world.

     From Naturalism: No place for God in the world. The wrong conception of the supernatural with both theologians and scientists; the result. Naturalism leaves out life's biggest facts : the personal and ideal. If the personal be real, then it is first and key to all the rest.

     From Agnosticism: We can not know God. What is knowing? The venture of faith; the justification through life; the application to religion. The right to believe.

     God as Presence. The meaning of law. The Presence in the life of man, in nature.

     God as Purpose. The bearing upon our social faith.

     God as Person. The failure in some modern cults. Religion a personal relation.

     The great objection to faith: the world of evil. Four facts : nature as cruel, as unmoral, as immoral, and fact of sin.

     Our fault, the failure to see life whole and at its highest. Three principles to be used.

     The Ethical Principle: the test of the good is not material ease but moral life.

     The world as a place for righteousness, not righteousness as finished external order but as moral achievement.

     The world as place for faith. Its contradictions challenge faith, call it forth, give faith its insight.

     The world as a place for love. Love as the final good. Its relation to suffering and sorrow.

     The Social Principle: to understand the world we must look at the social whole, not merely the individual.

     The social fact and its problem. Social suffering incident to social good, the source of social passion and power.

     The Principle of Development: we must judge life by its issue, not by the moment. A world in the making. As to the individual, apparent failure.

     As to the race. The tuition of law. Life in a world that is being made.

     The bearing on moral evil. Character only through development, with imperfection and failure as inevitable. God's interest is not simply suppression of sin, but achievement of righteousness.

     The final solution is by faith. Faith makes us sure of God, shows us evil overcome in our own life and in the world.

     The old conception and the new.

     The Traditional View: a real experience, but a faulty theory; the faulty elements: the Bible as text-book, inspiration as mechanical, human and divine considered as excluding each other, no room for real growth.

     The Modern View: a human book, but one in which we meet God; a great history in which God is moving; a nation through which God wrought; first the redemptive movement and the life, then the writings.

     The Historical Revelation in its character: it will be gradual, personal, redemptive; the Bible as its product and monument; the result, a Bible that is vital, that shows variety and difference and progress.

     The Meaning of the Book : the book of God, God as its ruling passion and its moving spirit; the book of man, revealing man, meeting the needs of all men.

     The Authority of the Bible.

     The theme: not what doctrine of Christ must we hold, but what help to faith does He give.

     Christ and the Question of God. Jesus brings us God as Father. Jesus reveals the Father by His spirit and life. The idea of God thus given has determined our ideal of religion. The religion of Jesus universal, spiritual, ethical, redemptive.

     Christ and the Ideal of Life. Jesus gives not laws, but an ideal; the ideal set forth in His life.

     His life: its purity, yet not negative; its universality and completeness; its supremacy.

     Jesus changes morality from mere duty to passion. He shows it as the conquering power.

     Christ and the Question of Hope. The problem of power as man's great question. Jesus' spiritual •mastery as a fact. He kindles the sense of need and of desire. He shows men God and gives them courage to trust.

     Jesus as Master of men and of nations, of the social life and conscience. "To whom shall we go?"

     The miracles of Jesus. The doctrine of His person.

     Our age as the social age; the social passion, the social insight, the social hope. The social. movement in the Church, its place in religion.

     The Social Ideas of Christianity. The Kingdom of God a social hope.

     The idea of God: His presence in the world; the holiness which saves instead of separating; the meaning of His righteousness.

     The idea of man : the sacredness of humanity; the radicalism of Jesus; the human test of state, of industry.

     The idea of righteousness : its meaning with the prophets; its social meaning; as a present-day issue; righteousness and the new democracy.

     The Social Spirit of Christianity.

     The spirit of purity: its war against immorality. The spirit of love: the new fellowship; socialising the man.

     The spirit of service.

     The Social Power of Christianity: the social spirit as creative force.

     A Social Creed.

     Modern indifference to the Church and its ground. False conceptions of the Church, and true. The Church a vital part of Christianity.

     The Church and Its Message.

     Ideas are the forces of history. The need of the message for society, for the individual. The message found in the Church. The Church and the Bible.

     The Church as Fellowship.

     Fellowship and the highest life; the need of the individual; the meaning for democracy; for the perpetuation of faith. The comprehensive fellowship.

     The Church and Worship.

     The permanence of worship and its need; its spiritual power.

     The Church at Work.

     The relation to the Kingdom; the Church as instrument; the spirit of service to-dap; social service of the Church, direct and indirect.

     The Coming Church. Authority and unity: in the past institutional and external, in the future moral and spiritual.

     The Life with God—Fellowship.

     As seen in the Old Testament, with Jesus.

     The problem : how can sinful man have fellowship with the righteous God? God receives us as sons, that He may make us such. The life of sonship: humility, trust, fear, obedience, prayer. The right to pray; the nature of prayer.

     Saintship—the Making of a Man.

     Saintship as consecration and character. Fellowship as a transforming power, God's gift; as a task, the moral demand.

     Society—the Life with Men.

     The social nature of man's life, its social training, its social task, and end.

     Stewardship—Life as Trust and Task.

     Life as co-operation with God.

The attitude toward the world. Jesus on the fear of the world and the love of the world. The world as means: the school of play, of work.

     The social meaning of stewardship : the stewardship of business; the spending of income; the business of giving; the stewardship of life. Choosing a life-work: What and where.