'Lord, Lord,' she cried, 'I can love even de white folks.'"
The question will legitimately arise here, as to the authenticity of an
experience in which Jesus is said to be personally guiding and shielding
her, but it must be remembered that the mind is the medium through which
the spiritual realization must be _expressed_ and, as has been stated
previously, the description of the phenomenon of Illumination, particularly
when experienced in a sudden influx must partake of the character of the
mind of the illumined one.
William James, late professor of Psychology of Harvard University, in his
exhaustive book _The Varieties of Religious Experiences_, in the chapter on
"The Value of Saintliness," says:
"Now in the matter of intellectual standards, we must bear in mind that it
is unfair, where we find narrowness of mind, always to impute it as a vice
to the individual for in religious and theological matters, he probably
absorbs his narrowness from his generation. Moreover, we must not confound
the essentials of saintliness with its accidents, which are the special
determination of these passions at any historical moment.
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