Excerpt from The Faith of a Christian

Every man"s faith, if he really has one, is in a special sense his own. Before he can really possess it, it must have passed through a medium, his own mind and thought, which has converted it from dogma to idiom. The translation of dogma into idiom is as necessary as the translation of the Scriptures into the living languages of mankind. The decay of faith, the lament of every generation, is a misnomer for the decay of dogma. Faith is the religious thought of mankind, and no more decays than scientific or any other thought decays. Dogma is the past expression of thought, and must be translated into the idiom of the present, if the faith it once expressed is to remain a living force in the thought of mankind. Every man who truly has a faith is of necessity a translator of dogma into idiom. His idiom is his own peculiar form of expression resulting from the training and education which he has received.

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