The Cross in Christian Experience (Classic Reprint)

This book is not a selection of sermons on sporadic texts. It is a series of addresses arranged so as to present the Atonement as a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. In the temper of our time, somewhat neglectful, and even resentful of the doctrine, the tone is necessarily apologetic. The essential feature of these addresses is their study of the Christian consciousness. The foremost place is given to the first Christian consciousness that of Jesus Himself. I have not cited the peculiar or striking cases. The fatal blemish of much Evangelical teaching, and of some of the scholarly volumes which record the varieties of religious experience, is that they are fascinated by the varieties and ignore the normal and reverent and sane. Nor have I quoted, except as types to which others conform, the witness of the great saints. The great saints are too great. Humble souls may attain to their faith and penitence, but they do not surge with their passion, nor aspire with their rapture.
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