Have you this sense of God within you?

The ideal man of this age is the Christian man—that true embodiment of all that is pure, refined, tender, dignified, consistent, humane, self-forgetful, noble, chivalric. His kindly manners, his cheery conversation, his courteous welcome, his hearty Godspeed, his delight in comforting and helping and bestowing little kindnesses and lifting better up to best, are but the legitimate fruits of Christ love. Pg345

In conclusion, the strongest of all arguments for Christianity is the argument from Christian experience, that subjective conviction which springs from a personal acquaintance and communion with the Saviour, that sense of Christ within one through which he knows the realness of his belief with the same unswerving certainty that he knows his own existence. This cannot be shaken out of the believer in whose heart Christ dwells. Pg353

QUACKENBOS Enemies and evidences of Christianity : thoughts on questions of the hour (1899)

Introduction -- The preeminent claims of Christianity -- What is Christianity more than Hinduism, the Pantheistic religion of India? -- What is Christianity more than Buddhism, with its attractive analogies to the practical teachings of our own faith? -- What is Christianity more than Confucianism, the ethical system of China? -- What is Christianity more than Muhammadanism, the monotheistic religion of the Koran? -- What is Christianity more than Theosophy? -- What is Christianity more than Spiritism, the yoke-fellow of Theosophy? -- What is Christianity more than Christian Science? -- What is Christianity more than Socialism, Communism, and economic democracy? -- What is Christianity more than altruism? -- What is Christianity more than agnosticism? modern doubt and Christian conviction -- Evidences of Christianity

Have you this sense of God within you? If not, you are hardly equipped to discuss the problem with those who have, for there is no common ground on which you can meet them. I can only advise you who may be agnostic to make a personal experiment. Honestly try Christianity. Permit your souls to be touched by its sweet influences, to be waked by its call to the finer and deeper and nobler issues of life. I have no fear for the result; for I am confident that you will recognize a mysterious change in your motives and wills with a sense of forgiven sins as a genuine experience ; I am sure that you will become conscious of a progress begun toward spiritual perfection ; that eternity will seem truer to you than time, and that you will incline to look upon death as a swinging open of the gates of happiness.pg354

“The kingdom of heaven cometh not by observation” of the outside world. “Stop gazing among the ways of men hoping to find a cure of their scourges. Turn your eyes backward and see into that kingdom of heaven that hath its everlasting abode within you. There your eyes will catch fire, light, miracle shining rays, and wherever you look after that, something new and strange will happen.” “The kingdom of heaven is within you. Behold! Heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead. These signs shall follow.” “Unto us a Child is born.” For Unto Us A Child Is Born ~ Emma Curtis Hopkins ~ 1984-12-23

God's answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake. Lesson 359