wider grasp of space or power, then religious growth suggests and demands their utmost development in order that by measuring space the extent of God's presence can be the better realized, by measuring time, the duration of his goodness be the more fully apprehended, and in all ways the resources of his power be the more adequately realized. If the facts of science have any power to help us conceive the fulness of diversity in God's methods and nature, then religious growth demands their utmost investigation and discovery. If language has any new power to express sympathy and love, religion demands its utmost development. If photographic art, electricity, and steam have any power to make the brotherhood of man a more practical fact, then is their extremest use demanded by every form of reverence and devoutness. Thus all forms of expansion are made parts of one great enlargement, and are but filling in of details of that process.

If religious expansion be thмs made fundamental and controlling, perhaps the most important result of all will be that each expanding individuality will not be self-aggrandizing, will not devastate and absorb, or harden back other expanding souls; it will rather stimulate and aid all other souls to enlargement, and be aided by them, so that all will be expanded by reciprocal help, through and through all. There will thus be an external symmetry of expansion, as well as an internal one. There will

be generated among men a general spirit of expansion carrying all forward to a fuller life.

The power thus inherent in religion to aid all other forms of expansion and itself to be further completed by them, may not have been fully realized or used in the past. But this inherent power nevertheless exists, and with each new need and with each new realization of the added fulness of life to be attained by a free and vigorous use of it, it will be made more and more available. Rising through the past we find indications of what this power will achieve when fully employed. The magnificent record of the Hebrew race in all lines of great performance is an illustration of it. The religious races in general are the expanding and achieving ones. Every race with a true and intense ethical or religious spirit has been expansive in some way, the Roman and English in government; the Greek and German in philosophy; the Hebrew and English in poetry and colonization and missionary enterprise. The enormous power in religious expansion is shown in such experiences as conversion, when the whole being seems suddenly to enlarge out over time and space, to expand in love and faith and many forms of vast inclusive growth, accomplishing in an instant the result of years of ordinary growth. The power of a fundamentally religious expansion to keep the enlarging soul in harmony with all others, to make it incalculably helpful in stimulating them, whether they will or no, and thus perhaps in time to govern all the ex

panding elements of civilization into harmony and the highest fruitfulness is shown most impressively in the cases of such men as Paul and Luther. Such men and such instances are but a prophecy of what can be done in the future.

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CHAPTER IV.

ORGANIZATION AND EXACTNESS.

SECOND PART OF GROWTH.

N the last chapter, the first and everywhere essential element of growth expansion, was considered. The second half of growth, is organization, or, as it may sometimes appear, re-organization. Mere amorphous enlargement is not enough. It breaks down in time and ceases to be of further use even if it be further possible. The atlantosaurs of geologic times, eighty feet long though they were, passed away because they had not a high enough organization. A newspaper in the city of Philadelphia, managed by somewhat loose business methods, had apparently reached its limit of growth. An organizing man, one who could determine the daily cost of each item of production and suggest plans accordingly, was put into the office. The rest of the force remained practically the same, but in the next four years the paper was able to grow fourfold. Growth is not merely the expansion of a gas, it is the expansion of the tree, and that perhaps of the fruit tree, where every few years a new and more highly organized variety replaces the old. The really growing mind is not merely able to grasp any magnitude or velocity,

and expectant of any diversity. It also tests and sifts out the unreal. It is not merely expectant of any emergency, or good fortune, or disaster; it is also able to test all appearances, to search out the real and measure and use them, till it is organized into fitness to meet and utilize all opportunities. Mere extended and unorganized memory makes the encyclopedia; mere extended imagination makes the dreamer; mere action makes the disturber. The diversity expansion which enables a mind to imagine the centaur is of some value; but that which enables a mind to conceive of the locomotive is worth more. The mental power which enables one to think of the vast multitude of stars as sparks flying from some anvil, or to take a flight through them from system to system, like that made in the famous dream of Jean Paul Richter, is worth something, but of itself it makes the mere visionary. The man that really grows, forms many such conceptions, tests and retests them all till he finds one like that of the great nebula once filling space and breaking up to form suns and systems, and thus brings his expansion into definite accord with reality. To be able to think as Macaulay did of the day when the Fiji Islander should sit on the broken arches of London Bridge and muse over the ruins of what is now the metropolis of the world, is worth something. But it is worth more to think of the day when the factories of Birmingham and Sheffield will be transferred to the Sahara; for when the earth's supply of coal is exhausted, this