To us he only doth reveal himself in works, in acts, in deeds done and undone, and by no other way may we hope him to know or see.
It is but the foolish who cry I save! I save!! For unto the smallest insect, not again can they impart that breath divine when it has onward fled.
Such claims as these, which some lips here do make, by wiser lore are closed at last.
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Why then consult the Doctor or the Saint, they both from the same place came, and both to the same place go.
But if for confirmation of the Future Life ye seek, look to the Universe and know the same great cause that cast its mould gave you your birth of clay.
Think! know that thou and it are part and part, of which beginning saw no dawn, and eve no ending.
The same doth regulate the hours, the days, the weeks, the years, the infinite time space, and likewise thine.