It is in that hope I write.

Catholics and Protestants, instead of saying to one another the things with which we are familiar, should look to their own houses; and if in this age of fashionable agnosticism, they should conclude that the general enemy is the atheist, socialist, and the syndicalist, they should still be reminded to look to their own houses; and if the agnostic take this to justify himself, he should be reminded he has never done anything to justify himself.

It may seem a curious way for inducing harmony to set out to prove everyone in the wrong; but the point is clear, not to attack what men believe but to ask them to justify their words by their deeds.

The request is not unreasonable and it may be asked in a tone that will show the sincerity of him who makes it and waken a kindred feeling in all earnest men.

The world will be a better place to live in, and we shall be all better friends when every man makes a genuine resolve to give us all the example of a better life.
III A development that would require a treatise in itself I will but touch on, to suggest to all interested a matter of general and grave concern--the growing materialism of religious bodies.