"But this we call 'revealed religion,' and think it is final.

But tell me more about these little temples of yours," I urged.

"And these Temple Mothers you run to." Then she gave me an extended lesson in applied religion, which I will endeavor to concentrate.
They developed their central theory of a Loving Power, and assumed that its relation to them was motherly--that it desired their welfare and especially their development.

Their relation to it, similarly, was filial, a loving appreciation and a glad fulfillment of its high purposes.

Then, being nothing if not practical, they set their keen and active minds to discover the kind of conduct expected of them.