II. 



EMOTIONAL RELIGION. 



vs. 



EMOTION IN RELIGION. 



S there such a tiling as emotion in Christianity ? 

 ™ The answer to this question is unequivocal. 

 Christianity is a life. If analogy is traceable 

 and thinkable, and emotion is predicable of 

 nature, religion can also lay claim to it. We are 

 too true to facts to deny that human life is emo- 

 tional. The emotional faculty is large and well 

 developed in life. The facts that stir the human 

 emotions operate quite the same as the facts in 

 religious life. Nor only this, but the same set of 

 faculties that receive and recognize facts which 

 produce pain or pleasure in the simple human 

 condition also receive and recognize facts result- 

 ing similarly in the moral sphere. 



That it is almost universally believed that 

 faith is the negation of emotion — feeling, no one 

 can question. The Scripture, however, does not 

 warrant any antithesis. Emotion, necessarily 

 and consequently, is commensurate with faith. 



It has come to pass, latterly, that he who gives 

 expression or cognizance to religious emotions is- 



