Testimony of Christian Experience 323 fies the optimist. Unwilling to confess failure, he replied, “When I catch this one I am after and two more, I’ll have three.” As an interpreter of experience he was an adept and would endure the most searching tests of the pragmatic philosophy; it was an instance of a purpose to “create reality.” Now the Christian method throughout is the practical method of answering the question, “What must I do to be saved?” Its answer is in Christian experience. It says to every man, You can test the reality and power of Christ practically. It says to every man, You have a “seeing spot” in your soul which God gives and which will recognize Christ, if you submit to Him, just as philosophy tells us we all have a blind spot and that if focused right we cannot see a black mark on a white card with our eyes open, and the card in front of us. Christianity does not say renounce reason but only waive your speculative difficulties in the interest of your moral wel fare. The Gospel is practical in its methods. The man born blind did not have to accept any theory of Christ, God or the universe, neither Monism or Idealism, nor any special form of theism. One thing only was required. Says Christ, “Let me anoint your eyes with clay and you go wash in the pool of Siloam.” This he did. His faith worked. It grew by exer cise. They plied him with questions and he said, “A man named Jesus healed me.” Later, “He was a good man.” Later, “He is a prophet.” And finally, “He worshipped him.” He rose from faith to faith under the guidance and inspiration of Christ and this is the experience of all who put their trust in Him.
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