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CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM. 



may be cojisoled by the fact that " this gift is rarely found associated 

 with a very keen and delicate human sympathy " (page 66), and yet 

 on page 70 he says that " the religion of Christ was eminently 

 mystical." Surely this is a contradiction. Where was there ever 

 such keen and delicate human sympathy as that of Christ 1 These 

 two statements, it is not easy to reconcile. 



Mysticism, so far as it cultivates the inner realities of religion 

 rather than merely external forms, ma}'' be welcomed if it be true, 

 but in the Scriptures we have " a more sure word of prophecy unto 

 which we do well that we take heed, as unto a light shining in a 

 dark place." 



