This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious
belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it
is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core however is a
profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in
its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for
the expression of a faith some from and possibly in some
particulars opposed to his own. The writer wish be found to be
sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling. However it is
well to prepare the prospective reader for statements that may jar
harshly against deeply frozen mental habits. It is well to warn him
at the beginning that the departure from accepted beliefs is here no
vague sceptic