ABSTRACT
God is supremely trustworthy, and to trust Him is the very foundation of moral duty as Religion conceives it. From what has been said it will be clear that the mainspring of the service of God must be love. It may seem a strange thing to speak of love for a Being so infinitely exalted as God. With the teachers of a later age love to God was an equally dominating passion. It expressed for them the whole religious life. Religion teaches that there is a Supreme Being, perfect in power, and wisdom, and goodness, the Maker of the Universe, and the Father of mankind. Intellectual assent to this truth involves ethical consequences. To cultivate them as desirable things, to regard them as virtues worthy of acquisition, is the primary duty towards God of the religious mind. Our duties towards God spring directly out of the religious idea.
