leadership of Christ, and so they miss it. He can show us the way of
life if we will but listen, but no other can.

And His way is always and altogether the way of love--love that can
tame the brute in us and make it a servant--love that can transform
passion into a holy fire--love that makes men patient and women
generous--that takes the common things of life and makes them sacred--
and above all love that can hate sin with fierce sincerity, and yet
love and forgive sinners.

It is after this fashion that God loves us. We must so love one another
if we are to make human life great.

There is another and a larger sense in which there is need that we
should forget the things which are behind. We need as a race to escape
from an evil past. Our greatest danger in this whole connection is the
danger of moral skepticism. "Sex vice has always been common," men say
with truth; and then with fatal unreason they add, "and always will
be." That way lies sheer disaster. The whole situation calls for faith
in man's future--faith in his capacity for purity--faith in love. And
that faith is really but a part of any true faith in God.

In the past even Christian people have tried to evade the problem of
sex. The truth about it has not been openly sought. Its challenge has
not been bravely met. Its possibilities have not been realized. And
therefore fears, sufferings, excesses, cruelties, and injustice to
women have degraded our common life. The whole matter is central for
our civilization. While we think and work for reconstruction we would
do well to remember that there can be no happy and harmonious life for
us till this whole problem has been solved--till we have learnt to