Its ictus may be connected with something like sympathetic vibrations from the soul's immemorial past, and its phenomenon of in-esistible conviction stands forth in a new way when illuminated by the higher evolution and anthropology.

Scripture is coming to be slowly revealed as the chief practical textbook of the race in a large ethnic psychology that reaches to the depths and does not so scrupulously confine itself as do so many of its modern academic expositions to the surface phe- nomena of psychic life.

Prayer, too, is almost a category of the heait, not only a passion of many savages whose lives centre in it, but also of the devotees of even a religion like Huddhisni which gives it no object and provides no place fur it in its cult Its high subjective function for man is established even if no praj'er had ever been objectively answered.

Biology has lately given the world a new conception of death and its function in the world, which teems with possibilities for religion which are only just beginning to be exploited.

More perhaps than anything else, modern psychic study emphasizes sin and evil as the church grows euphemistic about them.