[1]“But the emotional life, strongest, no doubt, in youth, remains a
lifelong element of personality and especially of the religious
personality. Feeling is not merely an integral part of religious
experience, it is central, vital, its inmost core. William James
speaks of it as the deeper source of religion, and says that
‘philosophical and theological formulas come below it in
importance. It is the dynamic factor in the religious life. When
it is absent, religion degenerates into mere formalism or barren
intellectualism.’” (Gillman, in _The Evolution of the English
Hymn_.)
[2]Rev. Louis F. Benson, D.D., in _The Hymnody of the Christian
Church_. (New York: Harper and Bros., 1927.) Used by permission.