Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-07

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iDfo Few da16 n deu1Sf64ak9
one hand whlle deatk neld the 0aher:
TO premise that / would alw@6oaaose-
and cherish hsr at the mpmenf yhen
u must know thatI could do nofhings
for her-I could NOT endure the,
thought! As before. her death y q
inaIity to me- could not seezbe5ond
it
In the midst Of this agony I fsncied
that ] heard q sound. and I crossed to
the door, but cid not openen. Some
n was calling the housekeeper. u
must have been mistaken in ~supposing
that I heard my own name.
/ returned to the table and began to
write. Without the slightest reference
to the scheme Of reasoning which Il
had set up, 4 pursued a path that
seemed to open OF itself. Is it through
lack Of argument that one fails to
grasp the truth of the immortal life?
Clearly not, for my own arguments.
though ! had earnestly believed them
to be better than my adyersary's. hal
failed to satisfy me. They had done
more to weaken my belief than to up
hold it. Yet they were good.
There must, then, be some other
lack. and it could be sought in only
one plaee-among the perceptive facul-
ties. The truth was there but l was
unable to see it. Argument might
have done something for my construc-
tive mind, but it had confused my per-
ception.
The experienced teacher finds pupils
upon whom the mere restatement Of
certain truths produces no effect. nor
can they be demonstrated to such
minds by any exercise of ingenuity. In
the old days the idea seemed to be to
beat as much as possible into the heads
of such pupils, to make them learn the
demonstrations by heart and to trust
that they would subsequently, under
stand them. Nowadays we know bet
ter. We realize that the pupils i,er-
ceptive faculty must be deveio.o ped.
Fashion his mind SO that it may sec
| the truth.
From that point the ermop wrote It.
self. Indeed, as / have intimated, I
seemed from the beginning to derive
increasing assistance from without.
| Some one who loved me sat beside my
chair and whispered the words of re-
| violation in my ear.
l will not praise the plan for the de-
velopment of spiritual perception which
is contained in that sermon, though l
| could do so with perfect modesty since
it is not my own. Were it mine, how
ever, | could feel no greater pride in
the help and comfort which it seems
able to afford. But I will speak the
truth as 1 see it and say that ii came
to me from one who, having tasted
mortal death, saw clearer than l see
the sun to-day the reality OF immortal
life.
This conviction that the work was
not mine grew stronger with me as l
continued. 1t became at last alarming,
and yet l was unable to cease / wrote
with amazing rapidity. | was drenched
in perspiration, which fell from my
forehead, blotting the paper before me,
and the sermon, as you will see It in
the pamphlet, was completed TO the
third paragraph from the erd-the re-
mainder being a mere formal eonelu-
sion-when l sprang from my chair at
the sound Of my name spoken outside
my door. 1t was so dark that ] do not
know how / had been able to work in
the last half hour or more.
I opened the door, which, without in
tending to do SO, l had locked. My