{"product_id":"2940012978479","title":"THE VITAL MESSAGE","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I  THE TWO NEEDFUL READJUSTMENTS\u003cbr\u003e  II  THE DAWNING OF THE LIGHT\u003cbr\u003e III  THE GREAT ARGUMENT\u003cbr\u003e  IV  THE COMING WORLD\u003cbr\u003e   V  IS IT THE SECOND DAWN?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDICES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A.  DR. GELEY'S EXPERIMENTS\u003cbr\u003e  B.  A PARTICULAR INSTANCE\u003cbr\u003e  C.  SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003e  D.  THE CLAIRVOYANCE OF MRS. B.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE VITAL MESSAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE TWO NEEDFUL READJUSTMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt has been our fate, among all the innumerable generations of mankind,\u003cbr\u003eto face the most frightful calamity that has ever befallen the world.\u003cbr\u003eThere is a basic fact which cannot be denied, and should not be\u003cbr\u003eoverlooked.  For a most important deduction must immediately follow\u003cbr\u003efrom it.  That deduction is that we, who have borne the pains, shall\u003cbr\u003ealso learn the lesson which they were intended to convey.  If we do not\u003cbr\u003elearn it and proclaim it, then when can it ever be learned and\u003cbr\u003eproclaimed, since there can never again be such a spiritual ploughing\u003cbr\u003eand harrowing and preparation for the seed?  If our souls, wearied and\u003cbr\u003etortured during these dreadful five years of self-sacrifice and\u003cbr\u003esuspense, can show no radical changes, then what souls will ever\u003cbr\u003erespond to a fresh influx of heavenly inspiration?  In that case the\u003cbr\u003estate of the human race would indeed be hopeless, and never in all the\u003cbr\u003ecoming centuries would there be any prospect of improvement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy was this tremendous experience forced upon mankind?  Surely it is a\u003cbr\u003esuperficial thinker who imagines that the great Designer of all things\u003cbr\u003ehas set the whole planet in a ferment, and strained every nation to\u003cbr\u003eexhaustion, in order that this or that frontier be moved, or some fresh\u003cbr\u003ecombination be formed in the kaleidoscope of nations.  No, the causes\u003cbr\u003eof the convulsion, and its objects, are more profound than that.  They\u003cbr\u003eare essentially religious, not political.  They lie far deeper than the\u003cbr\u003enational squabbles of the day.  A thousand years hence those national\u003cbr\u003eresults may matter little, but the religious result will rule the\u003cbr\u003eworld.  That religious result is the reform of the decadent\u003cbr\u003eChristianity of to-day, its simplification, its purification, and its\u003cbr\u003ereinforcement by the facts of spirit communion and the clear knowledge\u003cbr\u003eof what lies beyond the exit-door of death.  The shock of the war was\u003cbr\u003emeant to rouse us to mental and moral earnestness, to give us the\u003cbr\u003ecourage to tear away venerable shams, and to force the human race to\u003cbr\u003erealise and use the vast new revelation which has been so clearly\u003cbr\u003estated and so abundantly proved, for all who will examine the\u003cbr\u003estatements and proofs with an open mind.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147445158128,"sku":"2940012978479","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012978479_p0.jpg?v=1763575280","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012978479","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}