my mind (65).
In other words, she was very active in the world, in politics, in writing, in radical issues---but it meant nothing to her. It satisfied no important spiritual need within her. She was familiar with Christianity, but her preconceptions or misconceptions about that religion prevented her from taking it seriously. She saw herself first and foremost as a political and social radical activist, and she believed that Christianity was opposed to such activism. She writes, for example, that the New Testament declared "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward," while the political texts declared "Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains" (45-46). What Day would find when she turned her full h
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