Though the material of this volume has been given in extemporaneous addresses, yet no part of it has been reduced to writing until now. Its appearance in book form is in response to many requests. Especially helpful has been the encouragement of Professor Douglas Clyde Macintosh of Yale University who has kindly read the manuscript and made valuable suggestions.

R. L. S.

306 Golden Hill,
Bridgeport, Conn.

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CHAPTER I
Losing God, or the Honest Atheist	[1]
This chapter is a case study showing how false experiencesof religion and erroneous conceptions of Godmay result in agnosticism or atheism.
CHAPTER II
How Science Saves Religion, or Modern Knowledge and Religion	[39]
Introduction	[39]
1. What is God?	[43]
2. Who is God?	[48]
3. Where is God?	[53]
4. What does God do?	[62]
5. If the Ancients made their gods, how do we know that we are not making our God?	[71]
6. May we not be communing with a mere idea?	[73]
CHAPTER III
Does Man Have a Soul, and What Is His Place in the Universe?	[75]
1. What is man?	[75]
2. Who is man?	[77]
3. Would the absence of man cripple God?	[84]
4. What could an infinite God care for such a little speck?	[87]
5. Is not socialism the best religion there is?	[90]
CHAPTER IV
Does God Have a Body, and Could He Become a Man?	[104]
1. Introductory statement	[104]
2. The idea of the Trinity and how it came about	[106]
3. Was Jesus God or a good man only?	[113]
4. Can modern psychology any longer believe in the Deity of Jesus?	[116]
5. Where does Jesus belong in the religious, social and thought worlds?	[132]
6. Can God die?	[135]
CHAPTER V
Losing the Sense of Immortality	[142]
A general statement	[142]
1. The contagion of doubt	[144]
2. The inability to make a religious use of modern knowledge	[146]
3. The loss of a satisfying conception of the future life	[147]
4. The growing habit of classifying the future with things unknown and unknowable	[148]
5. An inadequate conception of the kingdom of God	[150]
6. We automatically lose the assurance of the future when we lose the reality of the present	[153]
CHAPTER VI
Finding the Sense of Immortality	[157]
How shall we find the assurance of immortality?	[157]
1. We automatically find the assurance of the futurewhen we find the reality of the present	[157]
Some reasons why the quest for reality is not morefrequently and earnestly undertaken.
a. The moral failure of Christians	[158]
b. Because the average Christian cannot answertechnical questions	[159]
c. Antiquated forms irritating to sceptics	[162]
d. The provincialism of sceptics	[164]
2. Equal striving for spiritual and material things is necessary	[166]
3. The final step in the effort to know God	[173]
4. Conscious of the existence of God, we become certain of immortality	[176]
CHAPTER VII
What Difference Does It Make Whether We Believein Immortality if We Live as We Should in This Life?	[182]
1. How can one live as he should?	[182]
2. The difference in social service	[183]
3. The difference in personal preparation	[186]
CHAPTER VIII
How Shall We Conceive of the Future Life?	[193]
1. Its relation to the present constitution of things	[193]
2. Where is heaven?	[196]
3. Will there be a Holy City?	[198]
4. Will there be music?	[201]
5. Shall we meet our loved ones?	[201]
6. Shall we see God?	[204]
7. Will there be burdens to bear in heaven?	[205]
CHAPTER IX
Losing the Bible to Find It	[207]
If the Bible contains errors, how do we know that any of it is true?	[207]
A general statement	[207]
The Method of Finding God's Word
1. The story of Creation	[212]
2. The story of the Garden	[220]
3. The Bible stories in general	[223]
4. The laws of Israel—moral and ceremonial	[224]
5. The Book of Job	[226]
CHAPTER X
Losing the Bible to Find It (Continued)	[232]
The method of finding God's Word (Continued)
1. The Psalms	[232]
2. The prophets in general	[235]
3. Jonah	[241]
4. The New Testament in general	[247]
5. The Book of Revelation	[250]

CONTENTS

WHAT AND WHERE IS GOD?