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, then, with what I take to be the central knot and need of all religion, “What must I do to be saved?” The old monosyllable, which has sounded so clearly since the coming of Christ the S.O.S. call of humanity, utters, it would seem, an ultimate need. And yet, what is it? Saved from what? The old word does not say; and this, I think, is very significant. We are to understand without telling, and I suppose we do. “Saved from pain and danger and hazardous enterprise?” No, that