If you
do listen the preparation to meet that army will at any rate do you
no harm even though the army doesn't exist."
"I tell you that the Soul exists, that God exists, and that one day
God and the Soul will meet. You say that hasn't been proved, and
until it is proved you will spend your time over other things that
you know to be true. Try it at least, give it a chance. Why not? You
give other things a chance, marriage, doctors, trades, amusements.
Why not the Soul? Don't listen to any one else's definition of
religion. Don't believe in it. Make your own. Find out for yourself.
My children, I am an old man, I am shortly to die. If I have scolded
forgive me. Let me leave with you my blessing, and my earnest prayer
that you will not pass by God on the other side. The day will come
when you cannot pass Him by. Meet Him first of your own accord and
then when that other day comes He will know you as a friend . . ."
The old man's voice faltered, failed, stopped. He himself seemed to
be deeply affected. Was it acting? Maggie could not tell. At any
rate he was old and ill and very shortly to die .
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