Excerpt from A Sermon Preached at the Old South Church, Boston: Sunday Morning, November 28, 1897All these conditions must unite to qualify us for this vision of the dead. There must lie back of the vision a Christian interest in man. Man's sin must be recognized, his need of moral deliver ance and the serious peril of his condition. There must be sympathy with man, and a passionate wonder as to his deepest relation to God. When your child is sick you turn away the curiosity of an enemy. You cannot gratify a frivolous friend you demand sympathy, profound and eager, be fore you can tell your sorrow. The vision is not for the inhuman soul, nor for the frivolous heart, it is for the spirit burdened with fear, with hope, and full of love.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.