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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1861 Excerpt: ... O l, wondrous times!--those palmy days of old;--When God with prophets spake, and angels walk'd With men--when heaven, with mild and radiant eye, Through dreams, and types, and shadowy visions look'd, And smiled on all who sought a better life. Though darkly hung the mystic veil that hid The better world; yet, through it, faith beheld, On the celestial side, the lovely forms Of sainted friends in blessed pastimes move. They mourn'd, but still in hope, for those beyond; And, smiling through their tears, in meekness said, They cannot come to us, but we shall go To them. We have discovered some beautiful glimmerings of this interesting doctrine of future recognition in the midst of pagan gloom. We have seen that it is a universal belief, hope and desire. We have also seen that it is in accordance with the dictates of enlightened reason. We come now to view it in the lovely religious twilight of Jewish hope. It is agreed upon, by all who have earnestly reflected upon the subject, that all religious ideas among pagans may be traced back, through dim and misty tradition, to the Jews, to whom alone spiritual revelations were anciently made. The report of these reve lations, though only in faint and feeble echo, reached the surrounding pagans, and waked up their hearts and minds to a sense of their wants. Around the abodes of the Patriarchs, Prophets, and Jewish people generally, the holy light of heaven shone; and though there appears also at times to be light out in the deep gloom, it is but a reflection: just as there are bright objects on the earth, though the sun is the source of their light. If, then, we are to trace the rays of light, which dart broken through the gloom of pagan night, to the sun of revelation, as it arose over the Jewish people, we may expe...
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