Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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1917 LETTERS
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wasted for emotional ends.
A full and practical realization by the Race
of the
dignity, power, and sacramental nature of the high ofiice
held by man, is surely the portal to an evolutionary advance
of high significance, referred to by St. Paul as
the birthing of those glorious Sons of God, "for whose
coming the whole creation groaneth, and travaileth together."
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Writers ,
The Esoteric Fraternity,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Dec. 9, 1916.
Dear Friends:
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The news of the passing of Mr. Butler was a great
surprise and shock to me, and I want to assure you of
my deep, heartfelt sympathy with you in the great personal
loss which you have suffered, and to testify to the
great help I have received from time to time during
many years from his books, magazine articles, and letters.
The great ideals of thought and life and character
which Mr. Butler set forth are very inspiring; he showed
us the secret of true happiness. He approached -the
problem of immortality from the spiritual rather than
from the scientific side, I think, and yet he was a great
thinker scientifically too, as his "Goal of Life, or Science
and Revelation" shows; and it is very significant that the
great scientist Metchnikoff suggested the possibility cf
physical immortality, or at least affirmed that man should
live much longer than at present. So I like to couple the
the names of Metchnikotf and Butler on this great sul:-