Angel voices from the spirit world Author:James Lawrence Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DEATH A BENEFIT. . The subject we propose to treat of, is one that appears betimes exhausted: and yet, each time we resume it, such varied phases present them... more »selves for discussion, that we ever return with double zest to scan its merits through the medium of thought, which naturally demands expression. Hence, I come to you as the means of spreading broadcast that which I trust may benefit humanity at large. Few things in nature seems to call for admiration more than the fact that all mankind must die. Strange thought. Methinks, I hear you say, " Is death a pleasure we ought to be thankful for, much more admire ?" Yes, my friend, it is even so, and as such will you view it ere long, be assured. When the soul is wearied of the things of earth, weighed down by care, pain and sorrow, chafed by an angry spirit to commit a wrong upon itself by uttering curses on its own existence, and tired nature sinks from very weariness, to whom will such a being, overwhelmed in wretchedness, apply for aid? To man he need not, for he has already appealed and found no succor; not a ray of hope has reached him that soon he may recover, and be again the man heonce had been. All this he must endure without the slightest prospect of a change, by which he might perchance deduce some comfort to his soul, now merged in darkness quite appalling to his bewildered .senses. Reflection aids him not, and why ? Because his mind retains no recollection of a single effort he has ever made to store it with those truths, which angel minds have offered for his acceptance. Thus, in ignorance profound, he sits a morbid, thoughtless being, incapable of asking what he needs. Can such a creature, we ask, desire to have extended, or even continued, such a life ? Yet, amidst all this wretchedness, to talk to him of death wo...« less