March 29

You have got to know that religion, the service of Christ, is not something to be taken in in ad- dition to your life; it is your life. It is not a ribbon that you shall tie in your hat, and go down the street declaring yourself that you have ac- cepted something in addition to the life which your fellow men are living. It is something which, taken in your heart, shall glow in every action, so that your fellow-men shall say, "Lo.

how he lives! What new life has come into him? It is that insistence upon the great essentialness of the religious life—it is the insistence that religion is not a lot of things that a man does, but is a new life that a man lives, uttering itself in new actions because it is the new life.