|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: go I must and tell the wonders of redeeming love. I lost all
taste for carnal pleasures, and carnal company, and was enabled
to forsake them."[120]
[120] Life and Journals, Boston, 1806, pp. 31-40, abridged.
Young Mr. Alline, after the briefest of delays, and with no
book-learning but his Bible, and no teaching save that of his own
experience, became a Christian minister, and thenceforward his
life was fit to rank, for its austerity and single-mindedness,
with that of the most devoted saints. But happy as he became in
his strenuous way, he never got his taste for even the most
innocent carnal pleasures back. We must class him, like Bunyan
|
