God Who Speaks
By Burnett Hillman Streeter
Oxford Group Writer England 1930s
McMillan NY 1937 Apparent 1st Edition
Warburton Lectures 1933-1935
224 pages
The Book is in good condition
no dust cover. Inside cover pages has some
discolor or foxing. overall a good book
considering it was published in 1937.
Would make a nice addition to any AA Archive
or AA Collection.
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Some quotes from God Who Speaks By DR BH Streeter
Streeter was provost of the Queens College Oxford
and formerly Cannon of Hereford.
Streeter became famous in the early 1900's for his four-source hypothesis
about the writers of the New Testament and his two source hypothesis.
He was a Keswick with Buchman and a leader of the Oxford Group in England.
(1) 'I would fain be to the Eternal Goodness what his own right hand is to a man.' Absolute devotion or surrender of the self to the Divine. 'Here am I, send me,' says Isaiah; and when Christ addressed to his earliest followers the words 'Follow Me,' we are told they left all and followed Him.
(2) Self-knowledge, and the consequent admission of failure. The promise 'I will guide thee with mine eye,' in the Psalm quoted above, is given to the man who has confessed his iniquity and thereby established a right relationship with God. The first response of Isaiah to the divine call was that flash of self-knowledge which brings home to a man a conviction of unworthiness and sin: 'I am a man of unclean lips.' ...
(3) 'Tarry ye ...until ye be clothed with power from on high.' (St. Luke XXIV, 49.) But this life of power, a power instinct with love and joy and peace, can only with difficulty be lived continuously except in a fellowship, within which mutual challenge, mutual encouragement and mutual confession of failure are easy...
(4) Entrance into such a life and such a fellowship involves some measure of suffering, sacrifice, or humiliation. 'Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.' (Luke XIV, 27.) It is perhaps not an accident that already in the Old Testament the promise 'Thine eyes shall hear a word behind thee, saying This is the way, walk ye in it,' is preceded by the words 'and though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction.'
- The God Who Speaks, by B. H. Streeter, pp. 175, 176