Yet how clearly does the past teach us that our vision of truth is ever changing. The science of to-day will be largely the folly of to-morrow. Truth, in any realm, is a country whose boundaries lie ever before us, whose geography each age must write anew. Truth is a road, not a terminus; a process of search and not the thing discovered alone. He only is religious really who opens heart and mind to the increasing vision of truth, in whom religion is not a cut and dried, fixed and unchanging philosophy, but to whom it is a method and motive for living, a process of adjusting himself to all his world in the full light of all the truth that can come to him. There is a religion for the man who must deny many things that once seemed essential to religion; for the man who feels compelled to doubt all things; it is the religion of the honest, open souled, unreserved search for truth and the translation of that truth as it is known into character, and living. If the setting of the face towards truth means breaking through ancient theology it also will mean bringing us face to face with the infinite. It is a good thing to lose the symbol if we only will seek for the substance. The heart of man cries out for the reality that lies back of all our words and for the realization of our doctrines in deeds. When the test of trouble comes, when earth is a desert and the heavens are brass, we find our refreshing, we find the real resources of religion not in doctrinal statements, not in formal creeds, but in that creed which experience has written on our hearts, in the consciousness of an eternal love not demonstrated by logic, in the sense of the unity of ourselves and our race with the infinite and divine. Every day must have its new creed, its enlarging vision of truth, but back of all lies truth itself, the reality upon which our fathers leaned and the unfailing springs where they were refreshed and the glowing visions that led them on. In that reality lies every man's religion. XVII The Fruits of Faith _Root and Fruit_ _The Orthodox Accent_ _The Business of Religion_ _Killing hope is moral suicide._ _Sow happiness and reap heaven._ _Every man is made up of many men._ _You cannot travel towards heaven with your back turned to honour._ _Earthly prudence is a large part of heavenly providence._ _Homes are often closest knit about some grave of separation._ _Your credit in heaven depends on earth's debts to you._ _To attempt a great work is to become a great worker._ _The practice of happiness does much for the power of holiness._ _No man ever found this world a weary place who had a worthy work to do._ _It's no use talking about the religion in your heart if it is not visible in your home._ XVII ROOT AND FRUIT