Article February 6, 1909 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from C. A. S. Dwight

[British Congregationalist.]

It is the misfortune and the penalty of a shallow spiritual experience that it cannot find, at its own heart, enough warmth to compensate it for the coldness of the world's sneers. It is the joy and the reward of a profounder spiritual experience that it can wrap itself in the robe it has itself woven when the chill winds of contempt are blowing. Live superficially, and the finger of scorn destroys your peace. Live deeply, sunk deep in those experiences wherein God speaks to the heart and the heart to God, and wherein God and the heart understand each other, and the finger of scorn has lost its power. A really profound spiritual experience is ever preparing its own shelter wherein in the time of trouble it may hide, makes man's contempt itself contemptible, and meets the scorn of the world with a higher and a holier scorn.

[Christian Work and Evangelist.]

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