Excerpt from The Coming Creed of the World: Is There Not a Faith More Sublime and Blissful Than Christianity? A Voice Crying in the WildernessMy parents were Christian people, entirely free from all pietism, and I was brought up simply according to the teachings of the Christian Church. After having been confirmed I lived, like millions of others, as a member of that communion, without ever re¿ecting on the nature of religion and faith. When I had reached about half-way, between thirty and forty years of age an event occurred which. Was intended to arouse me from my thoughtlessness, to stir me up to re¿ection, and to lead me into a path which I have followed ever since.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.