As in "The Meaning of Prayer," the Scripture has been used for the basis and interpretation of the daily thought. The Bible is our supreme record of man's experience with faith; it recounts in terms of life faith's sources and results, its successes and failures, its servants and its foes. And because faith is not a _tour de force_ of intellect alone, but is an act of life, prayers have been used for the expression of aroused desire and resolution. My indebtedness to many helpers is very great. But to my friend and colleague, Professor George Albert Coe, my gratitude is so definitely due for his careful reading of the manuscript, that the book should not go out lacking an acknowledgment. H. E. F. December 15, 1917. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special acknowledgment is gladly made to the following: to E. P. Dutton & Company for permission to use prayers from "A Chain of Prayer Across the Ages" and from "The Temple," by W. E. Orchard, D.D.; to the Rev. Samuel McComb and the publishers for permission to quote from "A Book of Prayers," Copyright, 1912, Dodd, Mead & Company; to the American Unitarian Association for permission to draw upon "Prayers," by Theodore Parker; to the Pilgrim Press and the author for permission to use selections from "Prayers of the Social Awakening," by Dr. Rauschenbusch; to the Missionary Education Movement for permission to make quotations from "Thy Kingdom Come," by Ralph E. Diffendorfer; to Fleming H. Revell Co., for permission to make use of "A Book of Public Prayer," by Henry Ward Beecher; and to the publishers of James Martineau's "Prayers in the Congregation and in College," Longmans, Green & Co. None of the above material should be reprinted without securing permission. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE vii I. FAITH AND LIFE'S ADVENTURE 1 II. FAITH A ROAD TO TRUTH 26 III. FAITH IN THE PERSONAL GOD 51 IV. BELIEF AND TRUST 77 V. FAITH'S INTELLECTUAL DIFFICULTIES 103 VI. FAITH'S GREATEST OBSTACLE 129 VII. FAITH AND SCIENCE 158 VIII. FAITH AND MOODS 184 IX. FAITH IN THE EARNEST GOD 210 X. FAITH IN CHRIST THE SAVIOR: FORGIVENESS 237 XI. FAITH IN CHRIST THE SAVIOR: POWER 263 XII. THE FELLOWSHIP OF FAITH 289 SCRIPTURE PASSAGES USED IN THE DAILY READINGS 316 SOURCES OF PRAYERS USED IN THE DAILY READINGS 317 PUBLISHERS' NOTE