Their cleanliness, their health, their exquisite order, the rich peaceful beauty of the whole land, the happiness of the children, and above all the constant progress they made--all this was their religion.
They applied their minds to the thought of God, and worked out the theory that such an inner power demanded outward expression.

They lived as if God was real and at work within them.
As for those little temples everywhere--some of the women were more skilled, more temperamentally inclined, in this direction, than others.
These, whatever their work might be, gave certain hours to the Temple Service, which meant being there with all their love and wisdom and trained thought, to smooth out rough places for anyone who needed it.
Sometimes it was a real grief, very rarely a quarrel, most often a perplexity; even in Herland the human soul had its hours of darkness.
But all through the country their best and wisest were ready to give help.
If the difficulty was unusually profound, the applicant was directed to someone more specially experienced in that line of thought.
Here was a religion which gave to the searching mind a rational basis in life, the concept of an immense Loving Power working steadily out through them, toward good.

It gave to the "soul" that sense of contact with the inmost force, of perception of the uttermost purpose, which we always crave.

It gave to the "heart" the blessed feeling of being loved, loved and UNDERSTOOD.

It gave clear, simple, rational directions as to how we should live--and why.