Excerpt from Immortality: An Essay in Discovery, Co-Ordinating Scientific, Phychical, and Biblical Research
Man's life is like a Sparrow, mighty King!
That - while at banquet with your chiefs you sit
Housed near a blazing fire - is seen to flit
Safe from the wintry tempest. Fluttering,
Here did it enter; there, on hasty wing,
Flies out, and passes on from cold to cold;
But whence it came we know not, nor behold
Whither it goes. Even such, that Transient Thing
The Human Soul...
This mystery if the Stranger can reveal,
His be a welcome cordially bestowed!
Because they believed the Roman Stranger could reveal the mystery of the After-life our Saxon fathers accepted Christianity. May we believe that any teacher, Christian or other, can reveal that mystery to us today?... That is a question which tens of thousands are asking now.
That there is a life beyond the grave, many, perhaps the majority, still believe; but it is a belief resting mainly upon instinct or upon a tradition the trustworthiness of which they are increasingly aware is being questioned from many sides.
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