The struggle for immortality

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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LIBRARIESNYPL RESEARCH 3 3433 06818229 8 ZAE FORSTRUGGLETHE IMMORTALITY 9 BY STUART PHELPSELIZABETH A NEW YORKBOSTON AND MIFFLIN AND COMPANYHOUGHTON, fiftcrsibe press, Cambri&ijc(£fa 1889 3&£ Copyright, 1889, By ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD. All riylds reserved. The Riverside Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.Press, Electrotyped and Printed by II. 0. Houghton & Co. — CONTENTS. — PAGE a Fact ?I. What is 1 II. Is God Good? 32 III. What does Revelation Reveal ? 79 IV. The Struggle for Immortality 119 V. The Christianity of Christ 1G0 VI. The Psychical Opportunity 195VII. The Wave 223 "several of these essays are reprinted from The North American Review "'"and "Tne Forum." $ THE STRUGGLE FOR IMMORTALITY. WHAT IS A FACT ? This is a noisy age. The dreamer can find no sacred silence in which to hide his fantasy. hisThe thinker may double-lock study door, but the winds of heaven will pilfer his thoughts from him the window, and the birdsthrough of the air will carry the matter ; if they do not, world concludes that there was nonethe to carry. The believer, too, is tremulous to the vibrations of the atmosphere. His mys- hardest. Ifticism and quietism come by the he have a faith, he feels that he must believe aloud. On every hand the air is quick with " "clamors. The advanced mind shouts to the scientist. The theologian thunders at the in- fidel. The ecclesiastic menaces the liberal Christian. The philosopher sneers at eaeh.

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• Immortality

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 23
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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LIBRARIESNYPL RESEARCH
3 3433 06818229 8ZAEFORSTRUGGLETHE
IMMORTALITY
9
BY
STUART PHELPSELIZABETH
A
NEW YORKBOSTON AND
MIFFLIN AND COMPANYHOUGHTON,
fiftcrsibe press, Cambri&ijc(£fa
18893&£
Copyright, 1889,
By ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD.
All riylds reserved.
The Riverside Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.Press,
Electrotyped and Printed by II. 0. Houghton & Co.—
CONTENTS.
—
PAGE
a Fact ?I. What is 1
II. Is God Good? 32
III. What does Revelation Reveal ? 79
IV. The Struggle for Immortality 119
V. The Christianity of Christ 1G0
VI. The Psychical Opportunity 195VII. The Wave 223
"several of these essays are reprinted from The
North American Review "'"and "Tne Forum."
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