In this volume we have sought to show the
new value the war has placed upon human per-
sonality. We have seen the ipowev of sin to
drag men down to tragic and contemptible depths,
and we have also beheld the power (rf the ideal
to lift men up to the most sui>erb heights.
Throughout the whole war men revealed innate
spiritual capacities that we scarcely believed Ex-
isted. They have demonstrated their right to share
the spiritual inheritance of the race irrespective of
nationality, creed, color or occupation. Further-
more the war has revealed the real source of cul-
ture by disclosing the decider spiritual meaning of
the home, the national soul, the Church and the
Bible as the basis of a new social order. The war
has made possible the triumph of the Christian
philosophy over the materialistic theory of life and
has revealed Christ at the heart of the cosmic
process as alone able to meet the needs and the de-
sires of men. It is the work of religious education
to develop each generation so that they will enter
fully into their spiritual inheritance.
We are now ready to attempt a general state-
ment of the meaning of religious education. Reli-



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ffum9 education deals with persons capable of great
spiritual attainment and seeks to direct- the proc-
esses of development in such a way that each indi-
vidual wUl grow into the fulness of the stature of
the man Christ Jesus. Whatever Christ means to
a man, that will religious education mean to him.
