The faith which God requires will include within it the exercise of all man's capacities and powers; there will be in the end no part of his personality and no department of his life which is not contributary to, or influenced by, his faith; for faith will be the means for the rounding out and the perfecting of the character. It will include the directing of the will, it will find scope for the emotions, it will receive the sanction of the intellect--it will be the movement of the entire man Godwards. How very necessary it is for people to do some thinking regarding their religion, and how very little is done. Many people think that what is good enough for their parents, is good enough for them in religion. But this is the only department of life to which this idea is attached. These people make no enquiries, they conform to certain formularies and rules of conduct, they have prejudices and great limitations. The fruit of this is an extraordinary haziness existing in men's minds regarding religion. Here a purely moral life is deemed the same thing as a life built upon faith in Christ. Or compare the emphasis put upon ethical duties directed towards one's neighbour (e.g. he is a good husband and pays his debts); when little or no account is taken of the obligations due to God (such as Christian worship or the sinfulness of profanity). Or again, people put their trust in the reception of the sacraments without clear ideas as to the "necessary dispositions" for the proper receiving of the sacraments, a tendency to treat them as charms. There are difficulties connected with our faith, such as the problems of pain and suffering, or inequality of opportunity, the prosperity of the ungodly, which require much thought. Besides all this the trust which men repose in God, not only in their everyday affairs, but also in those crises that happen from time to time, is strengthened immensely when the intellect contributes its support, when man knows he is passing through a desolating experience, but knows also that many others have passed through the like upheld in the darkness by faith. Every Churchman should make an effort to bring his intellect by reading and study to the support of his faith.