This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXI SPIRITUALISM IN ALL LANDS AND TIMES Selected from the Writings of Dr. J. M. Peebles. "I exist as I am, that is enough. If no other in the world be aware, I sit content. And if each and all be aware, I sit content."--Walt Whitman. Consciously do I feel that this life, with all its shadows ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXI SPIRITUALISM IN ALL LANDS AND TIMES Selected from the Writings of Dr. J. M. Peebles. "I exist as I am, that is enough. If no other in the world be aware, I sit content. And if each and all be aware, I sit content."--Walt Whitman. Consciously do I feel that this life, with all its shadows and struggles, is really worth the living. And such, I think, is the general testimony of human experience. During many wanderings in savage, semi-civilized, and enlightened lands, I have seen a thousand smiles for a single tear, and I have heard ten thousand merry peals of laughter for a single groan of suffering. Surely, God is good. But if death, as the atheist contends, "ends all," then this life is a little more than a tempest-tossed, tantalizing dream. If men rich in possibilities become, in dying, only dust and drifting gases, then hope, sympathy, aspiration for immortality, and all the soul's transcendent attributes, are nothing but heartless, pitiless mockeries. This world is of very little importance unless there is another and a higher with equal opportunities and vastly better facilities for unfoldment; another world or worlds to look forward to in the future. And the word "future" implies faith. The inspired soul feeds in a measure upon faith. It is faith in Infinite Wisdom, in Nature's laws and faith in man, that moves the wheels of enterprise. And it is faith in a future existence that, during all the ancient ages, gave energy and public spirit to earth's teeming millions. Navigators sailing, Columbus-like, under the inspiration of a lofty faith, have discovered new islands and continents. Hardy toilers plow and sow and plant in a trusting faith that the sun will shine and the harvests come in due season. Tradesmen transact...
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