The Archive · 1939

A Sign Required

Chapter IV is a verification of arguments. When people ask whether Feligioas experience can be verified, they apparently mean that they want something 3s convincing as a photograph in astronomical. study. Was Some permanent mark left?—a mark which others can see? In religion there. is no mark as on a photographer's plate, but we can reason bly look for a' mark in human lives.

the experience of God is what men claim it to be, we should expect see a general change in character, to expect them to walk with a new step. Perhaps the Psalmist expresses tthe highest form of religious experi-fence when he says: "Though T walla Uhrough the valley of the Shadow of Death T will fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy stall comfort me—rw.w.

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