Excerpt from The Book of Visions: Being a Transcript of the Record of the Secret Thoughts of a Variety of Individuals While Attending Church, Embracing Members of the Cabinet, Members of Congress, Bankers, Lawyers, Editors, Merchants, Ladies, Etc., EtcThe thought that the spirit of my Christian friend, released from its earthly tenement, which lay extended before me, already in incipient cor ruption, was enjoying a felicity unknown to those who were yet in the bonds of the ¿esh, afforded a consolation which nothing else could give.I turned away from the mournful spectacle, and indulged in solitude the thoughts which had been inspired within me. My own reason satisfied me that with God nothing was impossible, and that if it were his will, all the ministering hosts of heaven, and of hell, must be truly mingling everywhere in the midst of us frail mortals, Without the slightest consciousness on our part of their presence.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.