Excerpt from The Angel and the Vision, or the New Christian Commission And in this spiritual realm there must be breadth as well as height; conversions not only in character, but in opinion. The incident before us is a record not only of repenting and turning, but of broadening. For conversion does not necessarily enlarge a man, it may simply turn him in another direction. It is possible to come out of evil into good, and yet remain under intellectual conceptions that dwarf and restrain one. There is a broad world wisdom that often runs along with a worldly life, that may be lost if the better life is held under narrow conceptions, so that while the change may be a gain morally it is a loss intellectually; a process that has had illustration from the first until now, in the proselytes whom St. Paul found it so hard to teach the distinction between the letter and the spirit, and in those of today who fail to distinguish between conduct and character, between dogma and life, between the form and the substance of the faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.