To learn more about the project or give feedback on the quality of a recording, please visit aka.ms slash audiobook. Subconscious Religion By Russell H. Conwell I. What might be the consensus of opinion found in a digest of all the testimonies of mankind cannot be surmised, but it did not appear that God was a respecter of persons through those years of prayer at the Baptist temple. The prevailing belief, however, was that God was more willing to answer the sincere disciple than he was to heed the requests of a great sinner. But the fact was also evident that God does answer the just and the unjust. The assertion of the blind man before the Pharisees that, God heareth not sinners, was evidently a quotation from the Creed and not a gospel precept. As all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, no one would be heard if God would not hear sinners. Jesus was more inclined to heed the requests of John and Peter than he was to listen to the requests of the sacrilegious Sadducee. But a repentant Sadducee would not be neglected, and the fact is apparent that there is a clear distinction between the influence with God of a righteous man and the influence of a wicked or frightened sinner. Here are a few of the testimonies which have a bearing on this important subject. One hardened sinner was so convicted of his completely lost condition that he spent the night in agony, calling on God for forgiveness. He was determined to fight the battle alone, but his strength failed and he was certain that he was condemned irrevocably to eternal punishment. His prayer availed him nothing. When, at last, he opened his heart to a faithful Christian friend, that friend's prayer was heard instantaneously, and the seeker knew by an instinct axiomatic that he was received by the Lord. There is a general belief that God does hear the pure Christian more readily than he does the vile reprobate. That belief is founded in the moral laws universally recognized in human relations. There may also be a semi-scientific reason. The soul which is in tune with the infinite can more effectively detect and understand the waves from the spirit world than the soul which is out of tune with God. In the mass of the correspondence about which this book is written there are strong testimonies to the necessity and attainableness of a practical harmony with the spirit of God. One man who has been long a teacher of psychology wrote that he had made a deliberate test of the matter and a condensed report of his experience is here given. He sought to place his soul in communion with God. He desired that state of spiritual harmony with the divine character which would make him sensitive to every spiritually divine impression. Hence he prepared himself in this way. He locked himself in his room and gave himself up to