Souls in Action by Harold Begbie
Souls in Action
The Crucible of the New Life
EXPANDING THE NARRATIVE OF TWICE-BORN MEN
by Harold Begbie
This book was published by Hodder and Stoughton New York George H. Doran Company in 1911.
PREFACE
“IN two chief respects the narratives composing this book differ from those in Twice-Born Men. They are instances of conversion, but not of sudden, violent, and passionate conversion. Even so profound a thinker and so far-seeing an observer as Frederic Myers appears to have regarded conversion only in this manner, whereas the most interesting, the most striking, and the most conclusive cases of the miracle are those in which a gradual and quite tranquil change of heart leads to the new birth.
Professor Granger, in The Soul of a Christian, tells of a revivalist preacher who condemned a Scotch congregation for not responding to his appeal for sudden change: " A woman rebuked him by saying that her mother had been praying in the hills for five years before she was con-verted: how was she to be converted in five minutes?" There could be no narrower view of conversion than that which shuts out of count and regards only as cases of natural development, those fundamental changes in the soul which are gradually produced; so long as there is a culminating point, a place at which the spirit completely turns about and becomes definitely conscious of a new life, however quietly, privately, and dispassionately, these are true cases of the miracle.
The second respect in which this book differs from Twice-Born Men is in the character of the people whose stories it attempts to tell. In Twice-Born Men the testators were all men, and of the humblest classes in the community, some of them the very lees and dregs of society. In the present book most of the stories concern women, and in all cases the strata of society is above the depths.”
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