Reverence for Life - the Soul of Applied Religion and Science

Juvenile delinquency and rising waves of crime should indicate to mankind the need for a deeper consideration of those so-called social outcasts and barren lives which spawn upon the world scene the bleak result of wanton selfishness which culminates in a state of personal recklessness. Universal reverence for life, wherever manifest, must topple the walls of racial prejudice, caste, bigotry, political abuse, ideological polarities, and untempered religious zeal. Reverence for life, for man as its supreme representative upon earth, should be the soul of applied religion and science.

Inferior motives of conquest and control over that which can never be boundnamely, the free will of manmust go down before liberty of conscience and man's freedom to multiply his God-given talents. When rightly understood as means of uplifting the spiritual morale of the people, enlightening their consciousness, and lightening men's burdens, the common goals of religion and science will supplant their divergent philosophies and methodologies; hence the union of these two branches of the Tree of Life will be for the healing of the nations.