Description - The Doctrine of Last Things Contained in the New Testament Compared with the Notions of the Jews and the Statements of Church Creeds by Samuel Davidson
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...the wounds inflicted on the spirit by the diseases and departures of those around whom affection was entwined, cry out for the renewing of that pure emotion which allies us to God himself. The field and scope of love, shall it not be enlarged in a state cramped by no conditions of imperfection or change? Philosophy may throw doubt upon such yearning, science may call it a dream; but there is in humanity what is above and beyond science--the language of the heart, whose voice speaks in tones which echo through eternity. A conscious future can hardly be eradicated either by the slow process of evolution or by the speculations of pessimists; the logic of the heart within its sacred shrine refuses to be extinguished. The hope of individual immortality, if it is a manifestation of the divine consciousness at least allied to it, being a deepseated expression of the distinctness of the /--a longing anticipation of satisfaction in the Infinite, a peculiar reaching of the spirit towards its uncreated source. Instead of having nothing to do with the God-consciousness, it is in close affinity with it. Science may call it incredible, saying that man dies like every other animal, because he is the product of slow evolution from matter; but there are things above the proofs of science. Manifestations of a higher life unrecognized by materialistic philosophers, a life which is neither the refined outcome of organization nor its necessary dependent, hopes proceeding from the inmost soul, point to a future existence. Yearnings that cannot be stifled, an imperious hunger that nothing earthly can satisfy, a craving of irresistible potency, indicate the existence of a spiritual principle of divine origin. Who can believe that it is only the creation of physical...
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