and cannot bear to see it conflict with his scien- tific learning, must decide in his conscience whether in all honesty, he may still consider him- self a member of a religious community whose creed incorporates a belief in miracles, For a while many could still find a certain tem- porary reassurance by trying to steer a middle course and limiting themselves to accepting as true a few miracles of especial importance. But such an attitude is untenable in the long run, ‘The faith in miracles must yield ground, step by step, before the steady and firm advance of the forces of science, and its total defeat is indubit- ably a mere matter of time. The young genera- tion of our own era, which in any case is sharply critical, toward traditional views, no longer per- mits itself to be bound innerly by doctrines which it regards as contradictory to the laws of nature. And the spiritually most gifted members of the young generation in particular, those destined to be the future leaders of their nation and who not seldom harbour a burning desire for religious satisfaction, are the ones most painfully hit by such incongruities, They are the ones who must suffer most heavily if they are sincere in secking a