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Title: As it is to be
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Daniels, Cora Linn, b. 1852
Subjects: Spiritualism
Publisher: (Milwaukee, Wis., Press of King, Fowle & co.)
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ng oneself—this uttering of oneself inform—leads me to another phase of life there, which in my imagination troubles me much. You remember St. Paul said that now we see as through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. This prophecy has always been abug bear to me, and I imagine that other people shrink from its idea. Nobody wants to be seen face to face. There are secrets, errors, temptations, shames even, in every life, no matter how pure, which all would instinctively hide or blot out forever. The struggles of the soul against the enticements of the flesh are, in some of the most magnificent characters, of such a nature, that to have them exposed to public view and criticism would be a humiliation, a source of hurt pride and bitterness which would undo all the good the experience had done. Must we, then, believe that that sacred, Our histo- hidden portion of ourselves and our histories, nes guarded. wnich we guard with our very lives here, must immediately stand the fire of ten thousand
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nesses. MUSIC, ART AND MEMORY. 175 witnesses, and the sins we may have hoped were blotted out by the grace of God, appearand confront us with their horrible realities on the eternal canvas of spirit, painted irrevocably for all the Heaven to read ? No. God is not so mean as that. Not that you meant to cast a slur on His justice and honor, but that you felt that perhaps that is the only remedial punishment which would be absolutely just. But look at it. Can you conceive of a more unjust proceeding than to have, as you say, ten thousand witnesses to look at T ., all the actions of the past and judge them and sand wit-you by them ? To be sure, in that case you could read their lives also, but that would be a poor consolation. No, child. I will show you how impossible such a state of affairs here would be. In the first place, it is against the law of harmony. Sin, struggle, temptation, error, are no part of spirit life. Neither are the reflections of sins, struggles, temptations, errors, thrownon th

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