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Title: From Bondage to Liberty in Religion
A Spiritual Autobiography

Author: George T. Ashley

Release Date: March 25, 2010 [EBook #31779]

Language: English

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FROM BONDAGE TO

LIBERTY IN RELIGION

A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY

BY

GEORGE T. ASHLEY

THE BEACON PRESS

BOSTON

Copyright, 1919

BY THE BEACON PRESS, INC.

All rights reserved

FOREWORD

The substance of what is written in this book has been given on several
occasions during the past five years in the form of sermons or
lectures. On each occasion they met with such hearty commendation, and
so many requests that they be written and published in book form that
they might have a wider circulation, that I have been induced to
undertake it. This volume is the result.

It is in no sense a treatise on controverted theological questions;
altho some of these are incidentally treated, but only as they entered
as factors into my own religious life and experience. This book is
simply the story of my own religious life from my early childhood to
the present time, in its various transitions from the narrowest
orthodoxy to a broad, liberal, rational religious faith. It
necessarily deals to some extent with certain theological problems that
from time to time confronted me, the way in which I solved them, the
conclusions I finally reached, and why I reached them. But these have
been treated in mere outline only. The temptation has been very great
to treat, some of these at least, more elaborately; but I have been
compelled to content myself often with the bare statement of my views,
with few or no detailed arguments to support them. But as my object
has been, not so much to try to solve these problems for others, as to
point the way thereto, and stimulate the reader to fu