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/?e!t Idll aliI 9 P;{i~SdP;{tj Lisgar Russell Eckhardt, A.B., A.M., S.T.B" Ph.D. Religion is a force in the world thai has not nearly the amount of power it could and should have. Perhaps one of the reasons for this decline of influence is the fact that comparatively few people really understand their religion. They are prac- tically ignorant of its history and poorly versed in its philosophies. Church-goers follow ritual. recite creeds, but do they know why they observe certain practices and how the foundations for their beliefs were laid? Studying the lives and philo- sophies of great thinkers, tracing ethical problems which have perplexed the minds of wise men for centuries, add no little to the student's respect for and understand- ing of his religion. Eckhardt Baker Chapel 70