There is no limit to the power one may draw from the unseen universe.
"It is possible, I dare to say," says a thoughtful writer, "for those
who will indeed draw on their Lord's power for deliverance and victory,
to live a life on which His promises are taken as they stand and found
to be true. It is possible to cast every care on Him daily, and to be at
peace amidst the pressure. It is possible to see the will of God in
everything, and to find it not a sigh but a song. It is possible in the
world of inner act and motion to put away all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and evil speaking, daily and hourly. It is possible, by
unreserved resort to divine power, under divine conditions, to become
strongest at our weakest point; to find the thing which yesterday upset
all our obligations to patience, an occasion to-day, through Him who
loveth us and worketh in us, for a joyful consent to His will and a
delightful sense of His presence. These things are divinely possible."
One very practical question that cannot but confront the world at the
present time is as to whether there is any relation between religion, in
its highest and most inclusive and spiritually uplifting sense, and the
possibility of communication between those in this life and those who
have passed through the change we call death and have entered on the
next round of experience. It is a fact--albeit a rather curious and
unaccountable one--that organized religion, as a whole, has been largely
opposed to the idea of possible communication between what is currently
termed the living and the dead. Yet when one focusses the question to a
matter of personal individuality, it does not stand the test. Take, for
instance, the revered name of a man who was universally recognized as
one of the greatest spiritual leaders the world has known,--Phillips
Brooks. When he was the rector of Trinity Church, or the Bishop of the
Massachusetts diocese, no one who sought his companionship or counsel
would have been regarded as being wrong to do so. Now,--always provided
that there is full conviction of immortality,--why should it be wrong to
seek his companionship or counsel from the unseen life? Death has no
power over the essential individuality. Indeed, in being freed from the
physical body, the spiritual man becomes only more powerful, and with
his power acting from a higher plane of energy. Regarding ourselves as
spiritual beings,--and if we are not that we are nothing,--regarding
ourselves as _temporarily inhabiting_ a physical body, but in no sense
identified with it save as we use this body for our instrument of
communication with the physical world; what more logical or natural than
that the spiritual being, not yet released from his physical body,
should hold sweet and intimate communion with the spiritual being that
_has_ been released from this physical environment? Telepathy has
already become a recognized law. That mind to mind, spirit to spirit,
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