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Title: The fountain : with jets of new meanings
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Spiritualism
Publisher: Boston : William White & Co. New York : American News Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r heroic can be achieved without labors and dangersof greater or less magnitude. Therefore, although un-diluted intercourse with the celestial citizens is stillrare, yet the grand prize (the knowledge that personallife is continued beyond the grave /) is worthy the exer-tions of the finest powers of every doubting mind. 220 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. But remember, O, most friendly reader! that allother uses of the high privilege of spiritual intercom-munication—except when it comes in response to theunselfish prayers of friendship and love—are flagrantviolations of its fixed laws, are transgressions of itsdelicate conditions, which cannot but be followed byinnumerable mortifications and various disastrous pun-ishments. In conclusion, this one word : Prayer is sometimesa key, by which the golden door of infinite opportuni-ties may be unlocked; and, sometimes, prayer calls toour immediate aid those wise and strong guardians,who daily live in harmony with the eternal currentsof affection.
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XIV. Effect of a Mistake in Religion. A SERIES of supplemental considerations for thee,O faithful reader! in continuation of the generalsubject treated in the last chapter, as follows : Spiritualism, which is sometimes called u spiritism,has justly inspired hundreds and thousands of noblehearts with the fondest hopes for humanity. Highlyendowed intellects have been by its immense promisesfilled with the most brilliant anticipations. Many ofthese fond hopes have perished ; many a bright prom-ise has been toned down to the verge of despair. 222 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. Hundreds of the professors of Spiritualism have retiredinto the frigid, barren, and inhospitable, yet popular,territories of conservatism. The movement was, andis, full of aggressive and progressive minds ; and it iscorrespondingly empty of constructive and charitablelabors for human advancement. Nowhere on the goodFathers footstool can be found a richer soil so ut-terly grainless and unproductive. No other existingmovement

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