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Christian Belief Interpreted By Christian Experience: Lectures Delivered In India, Ceylon And Japan On The Barrows Foundation
Christian Belief Interpreted By Christian Experience Lectures Delivered In India Ceylon And Japan On The Barrows Foundation Author:Charles Cuthbert Hall General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: University of Chicago Press Subjects: Christianity History / General Religion / Christian Life / General Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics Religion / Christianity / General Notes: This is a... more » black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: FIRST LECTURE THE NATUEE OF RELIGION To be in India ; to observe its civilisation ; to commune with the leaders of its intellectual and religious life -- this, tor me, is the fulfilment of a long-treasured hope. From the days of my boyhood my heart has turned toward India with tender and respectful affection. Subtle are the influences that play upon our lives, swaying our emotions, predetermining our choices. These words are written in the Christian Scriptures: " The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth." So are our lives beset from birth by viewless forces that quicken sentiment and nourish purpose, we know not how. With the persistence of the southwestern monsoon they breathe upon us from out of the ocean of an infinite past; they impel us toward a coast that the mind explores long ere the eyes behold it. So was my life impelled toward India by an invisible breath of tendency, breathing upon my years from boyhood onward; a persistent yet most gentle impulse that filled my heart with love toward brethren unseen, yet not unknown. - Long before my eyes descried the headlands of your coast, long before I received the academic commission in obedience to which I have travelled hither, my heart prophesied of India, by the warmth of its longings, by the tenderness of its symp...« less