Publisher's Synopsis
The high ranges of Christian experience are not often viewed by the majority of believers. As mighty peaks are concealed by mists from the mountain traveller save at intervals when the vision of their sublimity breaks through for a moment, so, in the realm of the inner life, the white heights of spiritual supremacy are but dimly glimpsed now and then, the glory of their summits usually being befogged by selfish pursuits or temporal interests. The story of the church is a checkered one. It is a narrative of ups and downs, of victories and def eats, with too many periods of shadow to make its conquests complete. The spiritual tragedies have largely occurred because the body of believers have never quite reached that extremity which is always God's opportunity.
