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Certainly It Does Make The Greatest Possible Difference What We Think About God; The Knowledge Of God Is The Very Basis Of Religion.

What Is Today A Matter Of Academic Speculation Begins Tomorrow To Move Armies And Pull Down Empires.

Place The Lives Of Children In Their Formative Years, Despite The Convictions Of Their Parents, Under The Intimate Control Of Experts Appointed By The State, Force Them To Attend Schools Where The Higher Aspirations Of Humanity Are Crushed Out, And Where The Mind Is Filled With The Materialism Of The Day, And It Is Difficult To See How Even The Remnants Of Liberty Can Subsist.

The Type Of Religion Which Rejoices In The Pious Sound Of Traditional Phrases, Regardless Of Their Meanings, Or Shrinks From "controversial" Matters, Will Never Stand Amid The Shocks Of Life.

Conservative New Testament Studies Could Also Provide An Intellectually Satisfying Alternative To German Biblical Criticism And To The Liberal Theology That Accompanied It