Reality of the Spiritual World [antikvár]

Foreword Throughout his years at Haverford College Thomas R. Kelly entered generously into the life of Pendle Hill. To Haverford-Pendle Hill students he gave both instruo tion and inspiration. He was lecturer in the summer term of 1936, and he visited us at many other times as a meraber of the American Friends Service Committee and of various other groups conferring here. He was always a warm friend óf Pendle Hill and its purposes. The second Sunday in January, 1941, he spent at Pendle Hill, leading a conference of the Meeting workers on cultivation of the spiritual life. On many who heard him that day, at the height of his power and effectiveness, he made an unforgettable impression which was intensified by the news of his sudden death five days later. For these and for reasons of personal friendship, - it seems fitting that somé word of his be included in the Pendle Hill pamphlet series. It is with gratitude that the Publication Committee has received from Lael Kelly the present series of four addresses, given during the winter of 1940-41, which is here published as Pamphlet Twenty-One. Thomas R. Kelly's manuscript has been altered only in such verbal details as make it more suitable for print than for the spoken word. Somé of the material is similar to that in other of his writings; somé is different, while somé offers a fresh interpretation of the same truths. Taken as a whole, these essays are a refreshing demonstration of the careful scholarship, the warm humanity, and the valid mystical experience which made so many of those who loved Thomas Kelly as a friend hearken to him as a prophet.