that we can move. We do not understand the philosophy of digestion,
and we cannot conceive how bread and butter can have any relation to
thought and life; but we know by experience that they do, and we go
on eating and living. We cannot conceive how the same grass produces
lamb, pork and beef; but we keep on raising stock just the same,
because we are guided by facts learned by experience and observation
rather than by conceivability. We do reach our mouth, the minute-hand
does overtake the hour-hand, objects do move in space, etc.,
rationalism and inconceivability to the contrary notwithstanding.

Man is a religious being, and we know by experience that religion
gives him joy and brings him good. If we had no revealed religion,
science and duty would compel us to develop a religious system out of
our religious experiences. This is what has actually been done by the
different peoples of the earth who know not the revelation of God in
the Bible. The secret of the hold that even a false religion has upon
people is the fact that it does them good and gives them happiness by
exercising the pious emotions of their being, even though it may
bring them harm in other ways. Even a religion based on human
experience is better than none; for it is better to feed the
religious nature on husks than to starve it out altogether. To this
agree the words of Paul when he says that God "made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth... that they
should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find
him." But while man, unaided by direct revelation, can grope in the
dark and feel after God, and can invent systems of religion based on
experience that are better than none, any man that accepts facts and
testimony will soon discover that God has not thus left us in the
dark oil religious matters, but has "appointed a day in which he will
judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained,