I said that was just what I wanted, and I hoped to have one such paper each week.
I said I believed that after we had spoken of God, and decided what we meant, and all agreed, we would not often use the word God, because it was so nearly unspeakable, so vast and holy, that we would take it as a natural background to our thought.
“You know,” I said, “how in the old Jewish temples the name of God was mentioned only once a year.”
“And then only by the priest,” Henry added.
“But if we want to talk of God we shall have to use his name,” said Ruth. The others seemed to agree with her.
“The personal significance always clings to the name of God,” Marian said; “but what other word can one use?”
“Perhaps it would be better,” suggested Henry, “to use some such other word as All-powerful One.”
Virginia said that to her the word God had no personal significance.
Ruth thought we might use the impersonal word “Good.” I answered her that every attribute, even good, was limiting, and God was limitless.
I saw that they did not in the least understand what I meant, that they could not until we went further. So I said: