SPIRITUAL ENERGIES IN DAILY LIFE [Illustration] THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO SPIRITUAL ENERGIES IN DAILY LIFE BY RUFUS M. JONES, LITT.D., D.D. Professor of Philosophy in Haverford College Author of _Studies in Mystical Religion_; _The Inner Life_; _The World Within_, etc. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1922 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1922 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE I wish to thank the editor of _The Atlantic Monthly_ for his permission to print in this volume the chapter entitled “The Mystic’s Experience of God,” also the editors of _The Journal of Religion_ for their permission to use the article on “Psychology and the Spiritual Life.” Some of the shorter essays have been printed in _The_ (London) _Friend_ and in _The Homiletic Review_. Kind permission has been granted for their reproduction. INTRODUCTION RELIGION AS ENERGY Religion is an experience which no definition exhausts. One writer with expert knowledge of anthropology tells us what it is, and we know as we read his account that, however true it may be as far as it goes, it yet leaves untouched much undiscovered territory. We turn next to the trained psychologist, who leads us “down the labyrinthine ways of our own mind” and tells us why the human race has always been seeking God and worshiping Him. We are thankful for his Ariadne thread which guides us within the maze, but we feel convinced that there are doors which he has not opened—“doors to which he had no key.” The theologian, with great assurance and without “ifs and buts,” offers us the answer to all mysteries and the solution of all problems, but when we have gone “up the hill all the way to the very top” with him, we find it a “homesick peak”—_Heimwehfluh_—and we still wonder over the real meaning of religion.