Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 11: Organ of the Seventies and the Young Mens Mutual Improvement Associations; March, 1908
Why should men exercise faith? Why engage in Divine wor ship? In this age of education and philosophy, with a learned skepticism or higher criticism seeking to cast a doubt on the truth of the scriptures, it may be well to consider what intelligent reason underlies these principles.
If asked why we ride on the railroad cars, we might answer, because that is the easiest and quickest way to travel; if, why we build a bridge across the river, we would say, because the safest way to cross is over a bridge. For many other things Vi e do, we might give a good reason.
But if asked why we build a chapel, and meet to sing and pray, and worship an object above, whom we neither see, hear nor feel with our material senses, many a good Christian might hesitate before giving an intelligent answer. Not that no good reason may be given, but because many of us worship all our lives intuitively, or, as a matter of tradition, without thinking of the reason why.
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