The only true revelation from God is here in man--in the human heart.

I had to be years alone to find it out, Nance--I'd had so much of that Bible mythology stuffed into me--but I mustn't bore you with it." "Oh, but I must know, Bernal--you don't dream how greatly I need at this moment to believe _something_--more than you ever did!" "It's simple, Nance.

It's the only revelation in which the God of yesterday gives willing place to the better God of to-day--only here does the God of to-day say, 'Thou shalt have no other God before me but the God of to-morrow who will be more Godlike than I.Only in this way can we keep our God growing always a little beyond us--so that to-morrow we shall not find ourselves surpassing him as the first man you would meet out there on the street surpasses the Christian God even in the common virtues.

That was the fourth dimension of religion that I wanted, Nance--faith in a God that a fearless man could worship." He lighted his pipe again, and as the match blazed up she saw the absent look still in his eyes.

By it she realised how far away from her he was--realised it with a little sharp sense of desolation.