As that which we have perceived conditions what we can now perceive, so that which we have done conditions what we shall do.

It therefore appears that in spite of angry youthful revolts or mature sophistications, early religious training, and especially repeated religious _acts_, are likely to influence the whole of our future lives.

Though all they meant to us seems dead or unreal, they have retreated to the dark background of consciousness and there live on.

The tendency which they have given persists; we never get away from them.

A church may often seem to lose her children, as human parents do; but in spite of themselves they retain her invisible seal, and are her children still.