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... Future in the Early Ages ,. Opinions of Philosophers , .. Yearnings of Childhood and the Soul's Thirst , Desire for continuous Life and Remembrance ,. The Soul's Longings derived from God , ... Aspirations for Mental and Moral ...
... Future in the Early Ages ,. Opinions of Philosophers , .. Yearnings of Childhood and the Soul's Thirst , Desire for continuous Life and Remembrance ,. The Soul's Longings derived from God , ... Aspirations for Mental and Moral ...
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... Future in the Early Ages . - Power of persistent Self- Inquiry . - Confession of Lord Bolingbroke . - Argument of Dick . - Homeric Views.- Poets of Antiquity . - Mountain Illustration . - Socrates . - Opinions of Philosophers of ...
... Future in the Early Ages . - Power of persistent Self- Inquiry . - Confession of Lord Bolingbroke . - Argument of Dick . - Homeric Views.- Poets of Antiquity . - Mountain Illustration . - Socrates . - Opinions of Philosophers of ...
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... FUTURE . The Coliseum . — Earth a Tomb . - Meditations on the Supposition of no Future.— Birth of Error . — Waste not in God's Plan . - Immortality a desirable Fiction , if it be one . 124 - CHAPTER IX . ELEMENTS OF PRESENT HAPPINESS A ...
... FUTURE . The Coliseum . — Earth a Tomb . - Meditations on the Supposition of no Future.— Birth of Error . — Waste not in God's Plan . - Immortality a desirable Fiction , if it be one . 124 - CHAPTER IX . ELEMENTS OF PRESENT HAPPINESS A ...
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... FUTURE THE SOUL'S ETERNAL HOME . Universality of Home Influence . - Providential Designs . - The eternal Home . Views of Reason and Imagination.- Character given to a future Home by these . -The only true Picture found in the Gospel . A ...
... FUTURE THE SOUL'S ETERNAL HOME . Universality of Home Influence . - Providential Designs . - The eternal Home . Views of Reason and Imagination.- Character given to a future Home by these . -The only true Picture found in the Gospel . A ...
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... Future physical Economy unknown . — Ac- tivity a Law of all Being.- Memory survives . Study of Science . - Redeem- ing Love the grand Theme . — Praise . Cultivation of Virtue . - Heaven a glad Surprise . CHAPTER XXV . SOCIETY OF HEAVEN ...
... Future physical Economy unknown . — Ac- tivity a Law of all Being.- Memory survives . Study of Science . - Redeem- ing Love the grand Theme . — Praise . Cultivation of Virtue . - Heaven a glad Surprise . CHAPTER XXV . SOCIETY OF HEAVEN ...
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Page 239 - For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Page 263 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 441 - With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did. till...
Page 170 - In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
Page 332 - Grace first contrived the way To save rebellious man ; And all the steps that grace display Which drew the wondrous plan. 3 Grace led my roving feet To tread the heavenly road ; And new supplies each hour I meet, While pressing on to God. 4 Grace all the work shall crown, Through everlasting days ; It lays in heaven the topmost stone, And well deserves the praise.
Page 65 - To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength; to consider that she is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge; carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man. Nay, it must be a prospect pleasing to God himself, to see his creation for ever beautifying in his eyes, and drawing nearer to him by greater degrees of resemblance.
Page 328 - Where the saints of all ages in harmony meet, Their Saviour and brethren, transported to greet; While the anthems of rapture unceasingly roll, And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul.
Page 429 - The most able men — from the East and the West, from the North and the South...
Page 168 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
Page 279 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 'And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.