That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped by adoration, prayer and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to man. That the soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. In the third of these articles Franklin recommended a worship which he did not practice, but in the fourth he presented a doctrine of service of which his life was a remarkable fulfillment. In his theory of life Franklin seemed to make no claims for the finer emotions, but in his actual citizenship in all its public aspects he was so far above the average man as to serve as a pretty safe "working model" for this and coming generations. If he had not written this uncompleted life-story we should not know the man as intimately as we do, for to read the "Autobiography" is to read Franklin himself. Since the "Autobiography" brings the story of Franklin only up to 1757, it gives no hint of the Revolutionary struggle in which as negotiator and diplomat he was hardly less important than was Washington as military leader. The America presented in these pages is loyal and contented. The rising voices of discomfort from 1765 to 1775, of doubt during the next year, and of decision for revolt in 1776 were all echoed and often led by Franklin in his political writings. Moreover, it is of especial significance in these days to recall another fact unrecorded in his own story--that he was the first American to represent his nation among other nations, and that in his feeling for America as a member of the great world-family he was a hundred years and more ahead of his countrymen. The new marshaling of forces in 1917 which brought about the celebration of the Fourth of July in London and the arrival of allied American troops in Paris recalled from hour to hour the name of Franklin as our first great international figure. BOOK LIST =_General References_= BROOKS, VAN WYCK. America's Coming of Age, chap. i. 1915. DUNNING, A. E. Congregationalists in America. 1894. FISKE, JOHN. New France and New England, chap. vi. 1902. WALKER. W. History of the Congregational Churches in the United States. 1894. =_Individual Authors_= JONATHAN EDWARDS. There have been at least twenty-two editions and printings of Edwards's collected work. The most accessible is that in four volumes which appeared originally in 1843 and has been reprinted nine times, the last in 1881. In these volumes the most important pages are in Vol. I, pp. 1-27 (biographical), and in Vol. IV (sermons). =Biography and Criticism= DWIGHT, TIMOTHY. Travels in New England and New York (1822), Vol. IV, pp. 323 ff. HOLMES, O. W. Pages from an Old Volume of Life. 1891. JAMES, WILLIAM. The Varieties of Religious Experience. 1902.