Peace Perfect Peace LP Author:Frederick Brotherton Meyer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BLESSED DEAD On the quay of an obscure Norwegian town I once saw a parting between a little group of emigrants, about to try their fortunes in a stra... more »nge and distant land, and their friends and relatives, who gathered to bid them a last adieu. They were altogether of the poorest class, their goods in clumsy boxes, or clumsier canvas; but that nature spoke, through their evident grief, which makes us all kin. But the chief point of interest was the wistful eagerness with which the eyes of those on shore followed the wake of the retreating vessel, as though they would fain pierce the parting veil of distance, and see the land into which their dear ones went, perhaps never to return. So is it often as we gather around the spot from which some beloved soul is about to depart into the unseen. Whither does it go? What does it behold ? Whence comes the light which illumines the wan and pallid features, till they seem already transfigured into the likeness of an angel? We gaze where we almost expect to see an open heaven, but all is opaque and dark; and we turn away to take up our lonely path, and to wonder with a great awe as to what is really involved in this great and solemn mystery, which we call Death, but which angels know as Birth. Obviously, in death, there is no break in the soul's consciousness. The life of the spirit is altogether independent of the body in which it dwells. The signal-box may be in. ruins, and yet the operator may be within—as clear in thought and quick of hand as in the day when all was new. It oftens happens, when the body is at the point of death, that the spirit reveals itself in undiminished splendor, and flashes forth in thoughts that can never be forgotten, and words that can never die. And does not this prove, beyond doubt, that the...« less
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