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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SPIRITUALISM AS A SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALISM AS A RELIGION. An Inspirational Oration given under spirit influence by Mrs. CoaA L. V. Tappan, in St. George’s Hall, Langham Place, Regent Street, London, on Sunday Evening, September 21st, 1873. While Mrs. Tappau spoke this Oration (her first in London) she was almost totally unconscious of physical existence, and the matter was unpremeditated. INVOCATION. Our Father, infinite Spirit of light and of love, whose name we call God, but whose wondrous power, whose ineffable spirit, filleth every atom of the universe : thou wonderful, thou immortal source ot light and love, we praise Thee ! No other purpose hath our utterance than to give songs of praise to Thee for life. We praise Thee, O Spirit of Life, for every form of being: for the light and for the darkness; for the morning and for the evening; for the spring’s refreshing shower and the winter’s icy snow; for the harvest with its rich sheaves and the glory of the earth abounding with plenty. We praise Thee for all gifts of nature : for the rapt voices of solitude that give forth songs unto Thee ; for the wilderness teeming with life that praises Thee with its myriad voices; for the songs of wild birds that go up to Thee in Kjoicing; for the streamlets that dance and babble in bright sunlight; for the everlasting mountains which reach their hoary heads to the skies in praise of Thee; for the ocean—broad and boundless—Trhich is ever bearing us over its mighty bosom to the infinite; for all the Bights and sounds of nature, and for theimmortal voices of the lone stars. We praise Thee for the living soul of man, filling earth -with the influence of intelligence and art—the products of that thought with which Thou hast endowed him; for science with her rich treasures of knowledge; …

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