Life and labor in the spirit world: Being a description of localities, employments, surroundings, and conditions in the spheres.Longley, Mary T. (Mary Theresa)
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Life and labor in the spirit world: Being a description of localities, employments, surroundings, and conditions in the spheres.
Longley, Mary T. (Mary Theresa)
Spirit writings; Spirits
I will tell you of a beautiful scene I have recently witnessed in one of
the sanitariums of spirit life. Picture to yourselves an immense garden,
spread with a closely-cropped carpet of the freshest, greenest, and most
velvety grass you can conceive adorned with parterres of fragrant,
bright-colored flowers. The trees are tall, stately, and graceful, and
their foliage glistens as though sprinkled with dew; rippling streams of
water make rhythmic music pleasant to the ear. The sky is cloudless, and
the sun shines mildly down upon the placid scene. The atmosphere is of a
peculiar golden tint that clothes every object in a mantle of beauty.
Birds with musical throats and bright plumage flit from flower to flower
undisturbed by those human beings who are walking the grounds, or seated
in various parts of the garden. Small, white, cosey-looking dwellings,
simple and neat, are scattered here and there, while in the center of
this immense park a stately, white temple uprears its shining dome.
This place is a sanitarium or home where weary women, as well as
neglected children, from the earth sphere are brought to receive
protection, care, and instruction from the pure mother souls who abide
in this lovely spot.
The teachers and nurses of this glowing plane are of a truly
_spirituelle_ character; their lives are spent in seeking to guide,
influence, and encourage unfortunate spirits to find a higher and better
life than that they have hitherto known, and in endeavors for
self-improvement.
Here teachers and preceptors are educated and directed through a course
of experience that will prepare them to guide and guard those young
souls who come to the spirit world with no natural guardian or parent to
care for them. Love is the ruling power in this community, and no
unkind, unsympathetic thought finds its way hither.
INTERESTING INCIDENT: A MOTHER FINDS HER CHILD.
But the incident which I propose to relate to you was so beautiful I
feel that I must tell you of it now while it is fresh in my mind: a
beautiful young female spirit, a true teacher, a natural mother-soul,
whose entire being is illuminated with the light of benevolence and
love, had brought to her charming little cottage in the delightful
garden a young child, one who had recently passed to the higher life,
with no kind hand to close its mortal eyes or to drop tender caresses
upon the marble brow,—one of the waifs of society, cast out by mankind,
and permitted to ignobly perish from the earth.
This child was brought to the bright Summer-land, and tenderly cared for
by guardian angels; all the good within its nature was encouraged to
unfold and blossom out; all the attributes of ill, the conditions of
carnal life transmitted to it by others, were fading for want of
nourishment and attention.
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