be too Christian, “not to take our religion too seriously,” and to relax the war with what is despicable in and among ourselves and with what is unjust or vicious in the community. Though we are salt, there is constant pressure to be insipid salt. Some pressure to “back off” is the work of the Dove Spirit who makes people humane, sensitive, and gentle; but some of this pressure is the work of the Evil One who makes people cowards and temporizing. We are in the presence of the first of many warnings