In the latter year he also graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He later received the LL. He married Lillian Howard on Dec. She died in , and on Sept. The Rev. Riley had been ordained to the Baptist ministry in Kentucky in , and he occupied pulpits in Warsaw and Carrollton, Ky. In the latter year he became pastor of the First Church, Minneapolis, where he occupied the pulpit until , when he retired.
In he founded the Northwestern Bible Training School at Minneapolis and continued as its president. He founded and became president of the Northwestern Evangelical Seminary in Theologically, the times are out of joint! The air is filled with speculations and interrogations.
A great German professor entitles his book "What is Christianity? They stand up so erectly and so regularly that one is reminded not so much of an army on the march as of a halted brigade.
With the old question "What is Truth? The natural result is unrest. This is shared by many who know little on the subject, but whose spiritual nerves are disturbed by the theological storm. The law "like begets like" finds no exception when it comes to a question. One question can create another; and, as the lungs of youth take in more air than those of the aged, so the young men and the young women of the land are breathing the air of skepticism more deeply than is possible to those of mature years, and are correspondingly affected.
Henry Drummond once affirmed that many of the finest young men he knew in the Universities of the Old World were sorely disturbed over the whole question of Christianity; and were doubters, not because they desired to be, but because no man had appeared whose philosophy of religion had met their mental demands.
