Dr. Palmer on "Personal Religion"

Rev. Frederick Palmer D.D., '69, of Andover, delivered the third of a series of six lectures on "Personal Religion" yesterday.

Dr. Palmer said that a personal religion, which each man must work out for himself, as opposed to the corporate religion into which he is born, is the basic necessity of all belief. Some attain it by intuition, others by logical reasoning, but unless the personal element is present, faith will give way to scepticism in a crisis.

Many people dislike a formal creed, but a creed of some sort is necessary even to the atheist or the agnostic. The question is merely whether one should express his belief in his own individual way, or should adopt the thought and phrasing which have endured for ages.