{"product_id":"2940015252361","title":"The Angel","description":"The Angel by Guy Thorne, author of “When It Was Dark,” “Made in His Image,” “First It Was Ordained,” Etc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCopyright, 1908\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. And God Spake----\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. “Something Marvellous is Going to Happen”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Nearer\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. On the Mountain\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Pouring\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Cross at St. Paul’s\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Financier\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. “The Golden Maiden”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. A Link Chapter\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. The Cousins\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Joseph in Mayfair\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. The Service at St. Elwyn’s\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. The Conspirators of St. John’s Wood\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. The Warning\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Joseph and the Journalist\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. The Battle of the Lord\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. The Conspirators\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. Revealed in a Vision\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. “As a Brand from the Burning”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. Murder and Sudden Death\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. Waiting!\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22. The House Desolate\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23. Consolidation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24. Supreme Moments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI do not think a book of this sort requires a very lengthy foreword, but one or two things I feel it necessary to say concerning it. In the first place, I have to thank Mr. Hamilton Edwards for many valuable suggestions concerning it, suggestions which, undoubtedly, helped me very much in the writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story is an attempt to impress upon readers the fact that we are, without doubt, surrounded on our way through life by unseen presences, unseen intelligences, which guard or attack that real portion of us which is ourselves--the soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuperficially, but only superficially, this is a very material age. We are surrounded by so many material wonders that the unthinking person is inclined to believe, at any rate to state, that the material is everything. Yet there is nothing more unsatisfying than the purely material aspect of life, after all.\u003cbr\u003eHow can any one be surprised if the ordinary man is perplexed when he is called upon to decide questions of economy and morality, when the material point of view is all that he can see? For all questions of morality must necessarily depend--as long ago Plato pointed out--upon a belief in something which we cannot touch or see. Otherwise, morality has no significance and no meaning, except that of expediency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf, when our body dies, our personality stops, then I can see no logical reason whatever for trying to be good. To get all this life in itself has to offer by means of any sort--provided they do not entail personal discomfort--is the logical philosophy of the materialist. Yet the materialist, at the same time, is very frequently an honest and good-living man. This is not _because_ he is a materialist, for there is no reason for being honest, unless one is found out in one’s dishonesty, but because there is implanted within that soul which he denies a spark of the Divine Fire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf course, amongst thinking and really educated men and women, materialism is as out-moded as the bow and arrow in modern warfare, yet the majority of people do not think very much, nor are they well educated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis story is an endeavour to point out that people who assert nowadays that Matthew Arnold’s dogma, “miracles do not happen,” are hopelessly out of the run of modern thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMen like Sir Oliver Lodge are laboriously discovering some of the laws of the Universe which give us portents and signs. No one who knows to-day dares to sneer at parthenogenesis, or to repeat the slander of Celsus about the Mother of God. It is only men who do not know, and men who have grown rusty in reposing on their past reputations, who cannot see that Materialism as a philosophy is dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(See Preface for the rest of the Preface...)","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084417876208,"sku":"2940015252361","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015252361","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}