Status Updates From The Varieties of Religious ...

I finished my last book and picked this one up. I was just over halfway when I had originally started it, the writing at the front of the book tells me in Nov ‘23. So now I’ve picked it up again at page 290 and plan to complete it. We’ll see how long it takes me.

On pages 49 - 50 this author, though non-religious, gave a lecture about religious experiences in 1902 and articulates something astonishingly compatible with the gospel of grace. He correctly intuits: "religious happiness is no mere feeling of escape. It cares no longer to escape ... Inwardly it knows [death] to be permanently overcome ... I cannot explain the matter ... to understand it you must [experience it]