half-exhilaration

Updated: May 7, 2025

Nettleton talking about souls writhing under conviction, and I thought my soul was writhing under conviction. I had heard father say that after a person had writhed under conviction a week or two they began to come out, and I said: 'Perhaps I will get out'; and that thought produced in me a sort of half-exhilaration of joy.

- Stories of Achievement, Volume III, Orators and Reformers