... Religion (ought To Be If It

Agnosticism Has Nothing To Impart. Its Sermons Are The Exhortations Of One Who Convinces You He Stands On Nothing And Urges You To Stand There Too.

Religion Must Be Life Made True; And Life Is Action, Growth, Development - Begun Now And Ending Never. And A Life Made True Cannot Confine Itself - It Must Reach Out And Twine Around Every Pulsing Interest Within Reach Of Its Uplifting Tendrils.

... [a] Girl One Day Flared Out And Told The Principal "the Only Mission Opening Before A Girl In His School Was To Marry One Of Those Candidates [for The Ministry]." He Said He Didn't Know But It Was. And When At Last That Same Girl Announced Her Desire And Intention To Go To College It Was Received With About The Same Incredulity And Dismay As If A Brass Button On One Of Those Candidate's Coats Had Propounded A New Method For Squaring The Circle Or Trisecting The Arc.

Let Woman's Claim Be As Broad In The Concrete As The Abstract. We Take Our Stand On The Solidarity Of Humanity, The Oneness Of Life, And The Unnaturalness And Injustice Of All Special Favoritism, Whether Of Sex, Race, Country, Or Condition. If One Link Of The Chain Is Broken, The Chain Is Broken.

As In An Icicle The Agnostic Abides Alone. The Vital Principle Is Taken Out Of All Endeavor For Improving Himself Or Bettering Hisfellows. All Hope In The Grand Possibilities Of Life Are Blasted.