Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Mid Winter, 1922.


CONTENTS

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Introduction: Religion as Energy[vii]
CHAPTER I
THE CENTRAL PEACE
I.Peace That Passes Understanding[1]
II.The Search for a Refuge[5]
III.What We Want Most[10]
CHAPTER II
THE GREAT ENERGIES THAT WORK
I.Trying the Better Way[15]
II.He Came to Himself[23]
III.Some New Reasons for “Loving Enemies”[29]
CHAPTER III
THE POWER THAT WORKETH IN US
I.Where the Beyond Breaks Through[35]
II.Conquering by an Inner Force[41]
III.Living in the Presence of the Eternal[46]
CHAPTER IV
THE WAY OF VISION
I.Days of Greater Visibility[50]
II.The Prophet and His Tragedies[54]
III.A Long Distance Call[60]
CHAPTER V
THE WAY OF PERSONALITY
I.Another Kind of Hero[65]
II.The Better Possession[69]
III.The Greatest Rivalries of Life[74]
CHAPTER VI
AGENCIES OF CONSTRUCTION
I.The Church of the Living God[79]
II.The Nursery of Spiritual Life[83]
III.The Democracy We Aim At[86]
IV.The Essential Truth of Christianity[91]
CHAPTER VII
THE NEAR AND THE FAR
I.Things Present and Things to Come[98]
II.Two Types of Ministry[102]
III.We Have Seen His Star[106]
CHAPTER VIII
THE LIGHT-FRINGED MYSTERY
I.The Religious Significance of Death[111]
II.The New Born out of the Old[127]
CHAPTER IX
THE MYSTIC’S EXPERIENCE OF GOD
[133]
CHAPTER X
PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
[160]

SPIRITUAL ENERGIES IN DAILY LIFE