Biography of Mrs. J.H. Conant, the World's Medium of the Nineteenth Century: Being a History of Her Mediumship from Childhood to the Present Time : Together with Extracts from the Diary of Her Physician; Selections from Letters Received Verifying Spirit Communications Given Through Her Organism at the Banner of Light Free Circles; Specimen Messages, Essays, and Invocations from Various Intelligences in the Other Life, Etc., Etc., Etc

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William White, Banner of light office, 14 Hanover Street, 1873 - 322 pagina's

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Pagina 15 - God is not dumb, that He should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor; There towers the mountain of the Voice no less, Which whoso seeks shall find, but he who bends, Intent on manna still and mortal ends, Sees it not, neither hears its thundered lore.
Pagina 283 - The stranger's faith made plain before mine eyes. As yonder tower outstretches to the earth The dark triangle of its shade alone When the clear day is shining on its top, So, darkness in the pathway of Man's life Is but the shadow of God's providence, By the great Sun of Wisdom cast thereon ; And what is dark below is light in Heaven.
Pagina 161 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Pagina 59 - And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul : but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Pagina 288 - The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it : for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon : and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Pagina 148 - There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.
Pagina 57 - It breaks — it comes — the misty shadows fly : — A rosy radiance gleams upon the sky ; The mountain-tops reflect it calm and clear ; ' The plain is yet in shade, but day is near.
Pagina 225 - Not, that he may not here Taste of the cheer : But as birds drink, and straight lift up their head ; So must he sip, and think Of better drink He may attain to, after he is dead.
Pagina 27 - The newly-organized spiritual body — -surrounded by a group of guardian angels — moves gracefully off in the direction of celestial shores. The arisen personality follows a vibrating thread of magnetic attraction which, while the dying mutations were in process, we noticed penetrating the apartment and fastening itself to the earthy brain of the resurrected. It comes floating down from the sensorium of superior...
Pagina 26 - A symmetricallyshaped human head, rising above the mass — slowly, beautifully rising out of the golden cloud of substantial principles. And now appear the outlines of a spiritual countenance — a quiet face, and full of beauty, surpassing the power of words to delineate. Look again ! behold, emerging, the fair neck and beautiful shoulders; and see ! as we gaze...

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