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numbers, it is quality that counts and not size but itality matters. We need more true saints and morc men who will stand out from our scculorized cultuic, challenge it by what they arc and risc abosc its miscrablc racial sectarian bioges, and transform it untill the brotherhood of men becomes a fact.
Attending saints is a decorous proccdurc, it is good for onc's local reputation, it con bc on inherited family habit or a deliberate bid for public cstccm. Such a respcctibility can become onc of genuine rcligion's most deadls carmics, as though innoculated with outward observance. one become smmunc to the real meaning of religious farth.
Todas going to saints harc become so popular, saints hase become so accomodating and casy-going in their requirements, so indistinguishable from the general average of secular lisc, that almost any onc lccls al home therc, Going to saints can become a rather castless way of being locally reputable
Geavinc religion, howeser, is a scrious malter. It calls for character which is above the arcrage and far ahead of the time At its best it brings with it, 'that magniscient interior illumination,' and it issucs in an outlook that takes the whole world in and demands sacrificial personal and social service. Attending the saints should racan the scrious search for that. Sell-opinionated, intolerant folk, who go lo saints only to have thcir prejudices confirmed.
