[Lines, Written After Having A Hemorrhage From The Lungs]
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THE ANGEL IN THE CLOUD BY EDWIN W. FULLER PRIVATELY PRINTED MCMVII | ||
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Copyright, 1907
Sumner Fuller Parham
TO THE
HALLOWED MEMORY OF MY FATHER,
WHO,
EVEN WHILE I WAS GAZING UPON THE GOLDEN CITY
PASSED WITHIN ITS WALLS,
THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS INSCRIBED,
WITH TEARS.
PREFACE
To those who may favor these pages with perusal, I make this earnest request: that, if they commence, they will read all. Knowing that the best mode of dealing with doubts is to state and refute, successively, I regret that the plan of the present work forces a separation of the statement and refutation. To read one without the other were to defeat the object in view; hence my request.
Many of the subjects of thought are worn smooth with the touch of ages, so that hope for originality is as slender as the bridge of Al Sirat; but in the bulrush ark of self-confidence, pitched with Faith, I commit my first-born to the Nile of public opinion; whether to perish by crocodile critics, or bask in the palace of favor, the Future, alone, must determine. May Pharaoh’s daughter find it!
E. W. F.
Louisburg, Jan. 17th, 1871.