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Rh our life? Whatever conception of God we form by the exercise of reason or intellect, viz., Transcendant, Immanent, etc., will always remain vague and indistinct unless really felt as such. In fact, we keep God at a safe distance, conceiving Him sometimes as a mere Personal Being, and then again theoretically thinking Him to be within us. It is because of this vagueness in our-idea and experience concerning God that we are not able to grasp the real necessity of God and the pragmatical value of Religion. This colorless theory or idea does not bring conviction to us. It can not change our lives, influence our conduct in an appreciable way, or make us try to know God.

What does “Universal Religion’’ say about God? It says that the proof of the existence of God lies in ourselves. It is an inner experience. Recall to your mind at least some moment in your life in prayer or worship when you felt that the trammels of your body had nearly vanished, that the duality of experience—