Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Witness of Religious Experience: The Donnellan Lectures Delivered Before the University of Dublin, 1914, and in Westminster Abbey, Lent, 1916
I have said that a dispassionate judgment is needed. What is it that we are called upon to judge? Brie?y, we are called upon to judge a great claim which is put forth by Christian people - indeed, I might say by religious people in all-ages and in all countries. It is the claim that a man may know God, and that this knowledge is real and personal - that God may be known as truly and as unquestionably as we know the beating of our own hearts and the stirring of our own enthusiasms.
This Claim of the knowledge of God as a personal experience is put forth in various forms: the forms are of little moment: the fact is the important matter; and in their witness 'to the, fact the witnesses are at one. Shall we hear some of the witnesses?
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