They will go to lectures, to bands of music, to political demonstrations, but they will not go to church.

The reason they will not go is because they know that they will hear within the church the arguments of men whose minds are stunted by a narrow theological course against every discovery of science or result of investigation.

You know how the best minds in the Church ridiculed the discoveries of geology, of biology, ending, of course, by reluctantly accepting the teachings of the men whom they reviled." "You said all that in your paper, Mr.Holland, and yet I tell you that I abhor your paper--that I shuddered when I read what you wrote about the Bible.

The words that are in the Bible have given to millions of poor souls a consolation that science could never bring to them." "And those consoling words are what I would read to the people every day of the week, not the words which may have a certain historical signification, but which breathe a very different spirit from the spirit of Christianity.

Phyllis, it is to be the aim of my life to help on the great work of making the Church once more the Church of the people--of making it in reality the exponent of Christianity and Judaism.