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The Other Life.




CHAPTER I.

HOW CAN WE KNOW ANYTHING OF THE OTHER LIFE?

THE other life?

The skeptic looks into the grave of his friend and scornfully mutters:

"There is no other life. Who has returned from the dead and told us of it? If there be a God, why has He not revealed it so fully that all may be satisfied, and so plainly that no man can mistake his meaning?

'The grave's mouth laughs into derision
Desire and dread and dream and vision,
Delight of heaven and sorrow of hell.'"

The Christian clasps his beloved Bible to his heart and meekly exclaims:

"This is my pledge of immortality. Keeping