Post-mortem confessions : being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments by Allen Putnam / by Allen Putnam.

  • Putnam, Allen, 1802-1887.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Post-mortem confessions : being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments by Allen Putnam / by Allen Putnam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    be quietly classed as a new discovery by men of science, it would be appropriated instantly by those who are wedded to the orthodox creed of Materia Medica. If Spiritualism chose to be under the authority of dogma, creed, or formula, all mankind would worship the form, while the living spirit might have fled. It comes not to do aught to those who deny it, but wherever the heart is sad and weary and worn, wherever dejected and scorned of men, wherever finding in no creed comfort, in no formula the lesson of immortal life, it declares the well-spring in the desert, the voice in the lonety place, and binds up the burdened spirit, and heals the broken heart. It says to all: ' Deny it if you will, but the rose will blossom on the-iair rose-tree, the lilies of life will grow beside the flowing stream, the angels of God will speak with voices of comfort and rich melody to the hearts and lives of men, and before mankind is aware of it the ancient places of desolation and wrong will be overgrown by the blooming flowers of immortal life.' No place will it refuse to enter where a welcome awaits it,— whether hall, library, temple, place of worship, or human habitation, where there is a heart that requires its presence and that can perceive its voice.