Faith is the action of the soul.

It is the working of a power.

It is mastery of life.
Let the Church realise that Jesus taught this power of the soul.

Let her begin to exercise her own spiritual powers.

And then let her understand that she is in the world to teach men, to lead the advance of evolution, to educate humanity in the use of its highest powers.
A knowledge of the sense in which Jesus employed the word Faith is the clue to the recovery of Christian influence.
This is the suggestion which I venture to submit to the Church, at a moment in history when the harsh and brutal spirit of materialism is crushing all faith out of the soul and leaving the body no tenant but its appetites.
I do not think any observant man can deny that the whole "suggestion" of the modern world is of an evil nature, that is to say, of a nature which fastens upon the mind the delusions of the senses, making it believe that what it sees is reality, persuading it that the gratification of those senses is the end and object of existence.