Excerpt from The Other Life
Bishop Schneider having died in 1909 I have been asked by his friends to undertake the preparation of a new edition now required of his book. Looking over the tenth edition I become convinced that no revision is needed, nor any important additions and corrections, and that respect for the dead will in this case rightly constrain me to publish unaltered the authors best literary bequest. Since the appearance of the first edition in 1879, the author himself, with the greatest care and devotion, has repeatedly revised, corrected, and added to the book, so that the tenth edition is a thoroughly mature work, quite up to date and perfect in the fundamental opinions that it expresses. I have gladly refrained from exercising my right of adopting a different standpoint on a few questions of minor importance, and I can restrict myself to the task of saying a few words by way of introduction to the eleventh edition.
As I perused this Divina Commedia in prose, I remembered again and again the words uttered by Mohler on his death-bed: "Ah, now I have seen it, now I know it, now I could write a book - and such a book it would be, but, alas, it is too late." If the late Bishop could prepare this new edition himself, after passing through the portals of death, and having entered the everlasting kingdom that lies beyond, what light indeed he could throw on the very mysteries which he here attempted most reverently to elucidate, as well as human science and divine faith will permit.
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