Lanterna Rally

Author: Arthur Chambers

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9781230369969

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... a line from Shakespeare is strangely accepted as proof that the World Beyond is "a country from whose bourne no traveller returns." It is to be regretted that this " far, far away " idea is still entertained by many. It creates an imagined gulf between us and the Spiritual Universe; it minimises our chances of rightly estimating what we are; it adds bitterness to the pang of separation; it detracts from the comfort that we might draw from the Gospel of Christ; it leaves behind the greater part of "the sting of death," and lastly, it obscures a glorious truth disclosed in the Word of God. To that word we turn for the answer, " Where is the Spiritual World?" The Spiritual World is everywhere, and interpenetrates the Physical So accustomed are we to think and speak of the World of Spirit as occupying a defined and particular spot in the universe, and as being altogether detached from the physical man and the physical earth, that to many it is a novel and startling thought that the Spiritual World (or to use a more accurate term--the Spiritual Universe) extends everywhere. And yet, undoubtedly, this is a great truth disclosed by the Bible. That Book, indeed, shows that there are particular spheres or localities in the Spiritual World, but it also shows that the World itself extends far and away beyond them. It cannot be restricted to any one spot or spots, for the reason that there is no point in all the vast universe where it is not. Co-extensive with creation, it fills all space and, interpenetrating the physical, makes this earth or any other planet, any district, house, room, or place whatsoever as much a part of the Spiritual World as any other region where there is life and intelligence. But this is not all. The Bible shows that the...