HAVE WE D0NE 0UR W0RK?

Now and then some indifferent Unitarian expresses doubt as to the futurevalue of our particular church. There are those who say, "Why should wekeep it up? Have we not done our work?" We have seen our originalprotests largely effective, and rejoice that more liberal and generous,and, we believe, more just and true, religious convictions prevail; buthave we been constructive and strengthening? And until we have made ourown churches fully free and fruitful in spiritual life are we absolvedfrom the call to service?

Have we earned our discharge from the army of life? Shall we bedeserters or slackers! We ask no man to fight with us if his loyalty toany other corps is stronger, but to fight _somewhere_--to do his partfor God and his fellow-men wherever he can do the most effectiveservice.

We are not Unitarians first. We are not even Christians first. We arehuman first, seeking the best in humanity, in our appointed place in acivilization that finds its greatest inspiration in the leadership ofJesus of Nazareth, we are next Christians, and we are finally Unitariansbecause for us their point of view embodies most truly the spirit thatanimated his teachings and his life.