Excerpt from A Layman's Religion We have ceased to regard religion as a thing to be observed on Sundays and laid aside for the remainder of the week. To become effective as a social agent it must have trained spiritual specialists, and these must have intelligent, courageous soldiers to execute their commands. When religion was regarded as purely a creature of the emotions, a sort of religious frenzy to be worked up in evangelistic revival or prayer meeting, laymen might give it nominal adherence, but many of them shrank from its public avowal and exhibition. The different definition which we are giving to religion to-day has set free a vast reservoir of power among the laymen of the Church, power which, if rightly guided, will go far toward mak ing the Church what it ought to be, a dynamic force in social as well as individual life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.