Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: may utter itself in language unfamiliar to the traditions of religion; it may seem to many religious people remote or even alien from the practices of the church; but it is at bottom a new spiritual movement of human solidarity and obligation, and it may be the first premonition of a coming renaissance of religious responsibility and consecration. So large a movement of moral education is not likely to fulfill itself without expanding into a new type of religious education. The emergence of the social conscience indicates a new path for religious teaching and religious experience. The call of the social question is not only a call to man, but not less a call from God. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRESENT MORAL AWAKENING IN THE NATION REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, D. D., LL. D. EDITOR, THE OUTLOOK, NEW YORK If you have ever heard a symphony concert you have been filled with wonder at seeing one man playing upon one hundred men as though they were instruments; and you have wondered how that man could so play upon a hundred men that they should interpret together one of the great masters. That is autocracy in music; one man with a feeling of the beauty and a hundred answering to his touch. I once attended a concert in which five men seemed to interpret in perfect unison the theme of the composer. I was puzzled to know which of the five was leader. At the conclusion of the concert I asked one of the five who led. "No one," was the answer. "Then," said I, "you must have practised many times together in order to be able to render it so effectively." " Only once," he said. "How, then, could you interpret itso perfectly?" I asked. "Because," he said, "we all felt it together." That is democracy: Feeling, thinking, willing together; with one thought, one emotion, one purpose. This is what demo...