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A. J. Balfour accept anity answer argument atheist belief in immortality believe Bible Bishop Butler brain cease Christian Cicero conscience continue conviction dead death means desire Divine doctrine of immortality earth emotions eternal ether ethereal body everlasting evidence evolution exer experience extinction of consciousness fact faculties favour flesh friends gospel grave Hades HAPPENS AFTER DEATH happiness harps Heaven heavenly world hell Hereafter human imagine impossible infidels instinct Jesus Christ knowledge known things ligion live manifestation mankind material matter Max Nordau medium memory mental bodies mind moral mysteries nature ness never ourselves pain pass personality phenomena philosopher physical body present question race reason religion reply resurrection revelation scientific scientist seems senses simple faith simply Sir Oliver Lodge Socrates soul spirit spiritual body spiritualistic suggestive survival teaching telegraphy tell Tennyson Testament thought tion to-day truth wings words yearning
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Page 52 - Come, Lord, when grace hath made me meet Thy blessed face to see ; For if thy work on earth be sweet, What will thy glory be...
Page 25 - The tissue of the Life to be We weave with colors all our own, And in the field of Destiny We reap as we have sown.
Page 58 - God ; who will render to every man according to his deeds : to them who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life ; but •unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath: tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 48 - O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone, And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile!
Page 58 - And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment...
Page 41 - We have shown that amid much deception and self-deception, fraud and illusion, veritable manifestations do reach us from beyond the grave. The central claim of Christianity is thus confirmed, as never before. If our own friends, men like ourselves, can sometimes return to tell us of love and hope, a mightier Spirit may well have used the eternal laws with a more commanding power. There is nothing to hinder the reverent faith that, though we be all " the Children of the Most Highest...
Page 68 - God, who In times past spake unto the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son...
Page 14 - A little work, a little play To keep us going — and So good-day! A little warmth, a little light Of love's bestowing — and So, good-night! A little fun, to match the sorrow Of each day's growing — and So, good-morrow! A little trust that when we die We reap our sowing — and So, good-bye!
Page 67 - The great English philosopher, John Stuart Mill, has somewhere observed that mankind cannot be too often reminded that there was once a man of the name of Socrates. That is true; but still more important is it to remind mankind again and again that a man of the name of Jesus Christ once stood in their midst.
Page 45 - Looking at the religion of the lower races as a whole, we shall at least not be ill-advised in taking as one of its general and principal elements the doctrine of the soul's Future Life.