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Excerpt from The Death of the Believer: A Sermon, Preached in the Chapel of Brown University, June 30th, 1850, the Sabbath After the Decease of Mrs. Esther Lois Caswell, Wife of Professor Alexis Caswell

Would exist after death, and they were asked What is the nature of that existence and how shall we best prepare for it, they could furnish to such questions only a vague and unsatisfactory answer. A few holy men, from the workings of their own consciousness, aided by the divine light of the Old Testament, were convinced that their love of God and of all goodness must yet be satisfied by awakening sometime or somewhere in his likeness; but they rather looked into their own hearts for confirmation of their belief than to any acknowledged fact or any posi tive declaration on which they could rely with certainty.

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Excerpt from The Death of the Believer: A Sermon, Preached in the Chapel of Brown University, June 30th, 1850, the Sabbath After the Decease of Mrs. Esther Lois Caswell, Wife of Professor Alexis Caswell

A few holy men, from the workings of their own consciousness, aided by the divine light of the Old Testament,were convinced that their love of God and of all goodness must yet be satisfied by awakening sometime or somewhere in his likeness; but they rather looked into their own hearts for confirmation of their belief than to any acknowledged fact or any positive declaration 011 which they could rely with certainty.

If this was the condition of the Jewish, what must have been the condition of the Gentile world? On the heathen no light whatever had yet dawned. Their unseen world had been peopled by the poets with deities whom all thinking men acknowledged to be fabulous. Virgil had told them of a region of ghosts, where, for a while, all men dwelt amid unsubstantial shadows, again in other forms to revisit the earth, and pursue over again the phantoms of a sublunary existence. But all men knew that these were the creations of fancy, resting on no basis of evidence. Yet abolish these poetical dreams, and what was there left? Nothing, absolutely nothing. It was admitted that the vague idea of a futurity of some kind had floated for ages through the imaginations of men, but whence did it originate, and who was responsible for its truth? Who had ever returned from the other world to tell us of what was there transpiring? Where was the anointed messenger of the Most High, who had been commissioned to unfold to us the facts concerning the invisible state? The senses could not penetrate so far. The facts, if known at all, must be known by direct revelation; but during the long ages of heathenism who had been the revealer? All was involved in misty obscurity; and shadows, clouds and darkness rested upon it.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.