What is Spiritualism, who are These Spiritualists, and what Has Spiritualism Done for the World?Peebles Institute Print, 1903 - 131 pages |
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... dead for curiosity , for fleshly gratification , for selfish gain , for ambitious ends , or for unworthy , amusing , and irreligious purposes . If this was the witch - spiritism that Moses con- demned , or disapproved of , he did well ...
... dead for curiosity , for fleshly gratification , for selfish gain , for ambitious ends , or for unworthy , amusing , and irreligious purposes . If this was the witch - spiritism that Moses con- demned , or disapproved of , he did well ...
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... dead , the gifts of healing , the gift of tongues , the gift of clair- voyantly " descerning the spirits , " and other gifts spoken of in the ancient scriptures . Spiritualists , believe in the great law of evolution . They teach that ...
... dead , the gifts of healing , the gift of tongues , the gift of clair- voyantly " descerning the spirits , " and other gifts spoken of in the ancient scriptures . Spiritualists , believe in the great law of evolution . They teach that ...
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... and hell . Nothing was said about an interme- diate state , and yet the Bible is full of such teaching . " It is about those who are dead ( as we say ) that I wish to speak . I said just now that they are not WHAT IS SPIRITUALISM ? 25.
... and hell . Nothing was said about an interme- diate state , and yet the Bible is full of such teaching . " It is about those who are dead ( as we say ) that I wish to speak . I said just now that they are not WHAT IS SPIRITUALISM ? 25.
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... dead . ' God is not the God of the dead , but of the living . There they are , in the spirit world ; some in ' sunny Paradise , ' yet not so very far away from us . To some it is even permitted to visit this earth again . They have ...
... dead . ' God is not the God of the dead , but of the living . There they are , in the spirit world ; some in ' sunny Paradise , ' yet not so very far away from us . To some it is even permitted to visit this earth again . They have ...
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... dead to pray for ! But I do believe in praying for departed spirits . And as for those we look upon as lost -Oh ! that we had more charity ! What errible doctrines used to be taught ! That the poor heathen blacks who had never heard the ...
... dead to pray for ! But I do believe in praying for departed spirits . And as for those we look upon as lost -Oh ! that we had more charity ! What errible doctrines used to be taught ! That the poor heathen blacks who had never heard the ...
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Page 111 - I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Page 127 - And behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison; and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
Page 107 - Myself too had weird seizures, Heaven knows what: On a sudden in the midst of men and day, And while I walk'd and talk'd as heretofore, I seem'd to move among a world of ghosts, And feel myself the shadow of a dream. Our great court-Galen poised his gilt-head cane, And paw'd his beard, and mutter'd
Page 24 - I know, toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown worlds.
Page 107 - No visual shade of some one lost, But he, the Spirit himself, may come Where all the nerve of sense is numb; Spirit to Spirit, Ghost to Ghost.
Page 73 - WHEN on my day of life the night is falling, And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness calling My feet to paths unknown, Thou who hast made my home of life so pleasant, Leave not its tenant when its walls decay ; 0 Love Divine, O Helper ever present, Be Thou my strength and stay...
Page 108 - WE see but half the causes of our deeds, Seeking them wholly in the outer life, And heedless of the encircling spirit-world, Which, though unseen, is felt, and sows in us All germs of pure and world-wide purposes.
Page 57 - ... but of a very old-fashioned kind. They believed in present miracles, in instantaneous conversions, in revelations by dreams and visions; they drew lots, and sought for Divine guidance by opening the Bible at hazard; having a literal way of interpreting the Scriptures, which is not at all sanctioned by approved commentators ; and it is impossible for me to represent their diction as correct, or their instruction as liberal.
Page 25 - I have finished my day's work;" but I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight to open with the dawn.
Page 20 - Christians know it or not) that the giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible; and they know, on the other hand, that if but one account of the intercourse of men with separate spirits be admitted, their whole castle in the air (Deism, atheism, materialism) falls to the ground.