Download or read book The Blessed Dead Waiting for Us written by Samuel Benedict and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Blessed Dead Waiting for Us: A Sermon Preached in St. James' Church, Marietta, Georgia, on the Festival of All Saints, November 1st, 1863 I. As to the body. Outside every city and town and hamlet where human beings live, there grows up rapidly and steadily, the more thickly populated city of the dead. In Christian lands, the dear lifeless forms are there disposed with care, in recognition of the fact, that, in this condition, a great and mighty transformation awaits them. Soon, very soon, the population in these Silent streets, and these lonely tenements, far exceeds that of the busy town, with its bust. Ling crowds, and its homes of gaiety and happiness. Every year the stream ows on from the busy to the Silent city; from the homes of the living and the loving, to the cold, dark, unresponsive chambers of the tomb. Christian faith may teach us, that the state of the soul is vastly more im portant than the disposal made. Of the material form, and that he who has Christian faith will think only of the soul of his departed friend; that, in his view, the body will be only the deserted cell, the cast-off fetter, the forgotten au relia of the released, the exultant spirit. So, 'in one sense, it does. But still, under Christian teachings, the resting places of the bodies of departed friends, are places of special interest to the bereaved. There the heart naturally feels that the loved one is lying. Despite the voice divine that tells them he is not here, the heart still clings to the form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."