Excerpt from Travels in Faith: From Tradition to ReasonSome who do not care to read the theological and philosophical works of scholars may peruse and be helped by a simple narrative of personal experience and thought, for, as a German proverb says, What comes from the heart goes to the heart and the following thoughts are the result of years of earnest, prayerful seeking after divine truth.A shrinking from publicity is overcome by the desire for usefulness and the fear of unpopularity is allayed by the sentiment expressed in the words of F. A. Lange, Never has the thoughtful ob server the right to be silent, merely because he knows that for the present there are but few who listen to him.I was born in Boston on the first day of winter, 1839. My father* often pointed out to me a spot in the corner of his study, where, when he first heard that another son had been given to him, he kneeled and commended the newly given life to God. On the first day of spring, I was dedicated to God in baptism at the old church in Essex Street, my father preaching a sermon from the words, And it came to pass after the death of Abraham that God blessed his son Isaac.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.