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Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., in The Congregationalist and Christian World says:—

"The one thing in which we have come short, I fear, is this realization of God in our lives. What with our philosophy of second causes and our schemes of moral government, we have put God far away from us. Such words as those in which Paul assures us that God is working in us to will and to work for His good pleasure we have been wont to interpret in some dry, forensic fashion; the mystical union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God is not for us the practical fact that it was to Paul and John.

"Here is the source of our weakness, the cause of our barrenness. If we could begin, even now, to live the eternal life; if we could call in the dubious sentries who stand on every frontier of consciousness to demand of God some philosophic formula before we will let Him in; if we could hear the voice which bids us

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