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Helps for Daily Living

By: Minot J. Savage
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 NOT a great while ago, I was engaged in conversation with a finely-cultured and earnest-hearted gentleman, who had been trained in the old religious faith, and who, I think, is still a member of the Orthodox Church. I found, however, that, in spite of these facts, he was sharing in the discontent, the bewilderment, the questionings, that are touching so many hearts and so many minds at the present time. He had been suddenly smitten with a great affliction,— one that had been great enough and had come near enough to his own life to shock his settled belief, and make him ready to ask the question, What does life mean? What is it for, he said, what is the outcome of it? Why are we subjected to these tremendous trials? Are they worth while? Is there any definite aim and meaning in life?

So people in all departments of life, in all branches of the Church, first or last, come back to raise these old fundamental questions; and we need, if it may be, to have them answered, sufficiently at any rate to give us a working theory of life. I do not undertake to settle all questions, to clear away all difficulties. I do not presume to tell you that I can see through the mystery of life and tell you just what is to be the outcome. I only tell you, as the result of hard study and thinking, that I have come to certain convictions; and these convictions constitute for me a practical working theory of life. There are no more objections against them, at any rate, than against any other theory of life that I can frame. And this theory, or this way of looking at life, has the advantage of giving us standing-ground under our feet and, at least, hope for the future.

In attempting, then, to answer this broad question as to whether there be any aim and meaning in life, I wish, first, to treat of it from the stand point of the world as a whole, as to whether we can see any traces of a divine aim and meaning, as to whether we have any right to speak of God as having a plan, a purpose, in human life. Then I shall come to the more personal question, when I have disposed of that.

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