Religion

AMONG DR. TUCKER'S writingsand addresses on the subject ofReligion the following excerptshave been selected by the author of theaccompanying article, Mr. Leavens, as representative quotations:

"We cannot remind ourselves too often or too urgently that the truths of Christianity were designed to be felt. Christianity is written in the language of the great emotions. It is the story of the forgiveness, compassion, patience, and sacrificial love of God finding response in the gratitude, devotion, trust, and sacrificial love of the human heart The almost inevitable tendency of a religion untouched by emotion is toward complacency,—complacency in respect to the conventional virtues, or in respect to good deeds of different sorts, or in respect to superiority in matters of belief The contagious element in religion lies in the emotions In the exercise of its spiritual authority, the projective and carrying power of the Church lies largely in the depth and breadth of its emotional faith. So Christianity began to spread, and so it has continued to spread. The faith of Paul has been the missionary faith of the Church, and his faith was 'logic on fire.' "