ABSTRACT
No strange deity was speaking, but the God whom his father had taught him to reverence, the majestic Being who, despite his majesty, was endeared to him by all the tender memories of childhood. And so he was prepared for the momentous communication, for the solemn call to his life-work. Young people nowadays are sufficient unto themselves; they must go their own way, and live their own lives. The ideas of their elders, painfully gathered from years of experience, are obsolete; the God of their fathers, just because He is theirs, just because He has been the hope and the stay of times other than the present, is discredited. The blame is not to be laid entirely upon them. The lure of the new world, now in the making, is all but irresistible.
