The Indwelling Christ

from the INTRODUCTION.


Having had the privilege of reading in sheets this little treatise on "The Indwelling Christ," I am able to express an opinion of its value as a contribution on this important subject. That opinion is highly favorable. This book is the production of an author who brings to his task a thoughtful mind, enriched by extensive reading as well as by its own reflection. The style is good, simple, clear, refined. Above all, the religious spirit of the book is thoroughly wholesome. There is no trace in it of weak, sickly sentiment. A mystic vein indeed runs through its pages, but always accompanied by a practical tone, with a sure instinct for good sense and reality. The subject is well worth writing about. The indwelling of Christ in the heart of a believing man is no idle fancy. It is a spiritual fact on which much depends. Mr. Campbell has given great breadth to his treatment of the theme by asserting the immanence of Christ not merely in the individual Christian but in the world at large.


I wish for this book the extensive circulation it merits, and for all its readers that blessed indwelling it seeks to promote. Let me say to these readers that they will do well to read, along with this work, the Gospels, that they may have a well informed conception of the Christ who is to dwell in their hearts by faith.


A. B. BRUCE.