“A new valuation is being placed upon life. We accept the world for the joyous place it was meant to be. We like it, despite the fact that belated theologians look upon it with inherited suspicion … The dominant motive, therefore, is no longer to escape from earthly existence, but to make earthly existence as abundant and happy as it can be made. Modern religion …must speed those readjustments which will make life here and now justify our hopes.”

Clarence R. Skinner, The Social Implications of Universalism (Boston: Universalist Pub. House, 1915), 47.