The Nurseries of Heaven: A Series of Essays by Various Writers Concerning the Future Life of Children, with Experiences of the Manifestation After Death

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George Vale Owen, Helen A. Dallas
Paul, 1920 - Future life - 174 pages

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Page 125 - And ever near us, though unseen. The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is life — there are no dead.
Page 11 - faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen.
Page 14 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
Page 126 - Let — not — your - — heart — be — troubled. In — my — Father's — house — are — many — mansions. I — go — to — prepare — a — place — for — you.
Page 111 - ... heads, which, she was afterwards spiritually informed, were drawn in typical allusion to this sad event. Other details, symbolic of the country in which it occurred, and of the attraction of the mother's spirit to her three little ones, were added. The drawing forms a very striking illustration of the various methods employed by spirit to reach various types of mind.
Page 32 - For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again ; neither doth God respect any person : yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Page 47 - unelected ' infant sighed out its little breath And wandered through the darkness along the shores of death, Until the gates of Heaven, agleam with pearl it spied And ran to them and clung there, and would not be denied, Though still from earth came mutterings, ' You cannot enter in. Depart unto Gehenna, you child of wrath and sin.
Page 33 - is that of a child of about nine years old ; his aspect full of sweetness and majesty ; his eyes generally turned towards heaven : words cannot describe the divine purity of that gaze. His brow is always serene ; his glances kindle in the soul the flame of ardent devotion.
Page 111 - ... or the place of the sad occurrence. In reciting the incident of three young children communicating with me, I gave the names and the place, as they had been furnished to me in the messages. Mrs. Watts undertook to ascertain from Mrs. Leaf the particulars of the case she had mentioned. She did so on the very next day, and the names were the same. Through the kindness of Mrs. Watts I made the acquaintance of Mrs. Leaf, and was much impressed with the perfect correspondence of every detail given...
Page 138 - Like a day that grew dark at the dawn of its splendor, Like a sweet song unended, a story half told, Like a flower of the springtime so lovely and tender, Was the beautiful being we laid 'neath the mould. Perchance the cold world had too little of pity, Perchance the long way was too rough 'for her feet; So she went to the gates of the beautiful city, Where the music of harps drifted over the street.

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