The Faith of Modernism

THE world is being reconstructed. Can Christians aid? A religion that cannot meet the creative needs of men and women is a social encumbrance. A faith on the defensive is confessedly senile. Aesthetic appeal, vested wealth, the inertia of organization may serve to hide its decadence, but they cannot renew its youth. True, such a religion may serve as a form of social control, like bread and the circus keeping an uneasy proletariat from revolt. So it was in Home when the rich restored the shrines