In this functional sense Orage was a signal example of religious man. Jesus said, "Be ye perfect even as your father in heaven is perfect." This infinite and impossible ideal as he called it was the heart of religion for Orage. "Religion is the study and practice of perfection," he said. He never allowed subjective interests to swerve him from his devotion to this purpose, to the no small mystification and annoyance of some who could not comprehend. He thought, he wrote, he acted, not for himself, not for man, but for God. God, truth, righteousness, cosmic purpose, perfected normality,—each must use the term correspondent to his own understanding. Orage said God. He defined religion as the attempt to establish an ideal and conscious relation between man and God, thus distinguishing it from its most colorable imitations in the form of morality, neighborliness or humanitarianism.…

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