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Got into this thought by a post in another thread,
did not want to derail it so therefore this thresd.
"Where do they go?"
Was a burning question for me when I was younger.
When those in my nearness were not there anymore,
got different answers even lay in the grass for hours looking up at the sky,
but did not see anything.
So, was not satisfied.
Then it came to me that years ago on a trip to London I bought a secondhand book (1877)
called, "The Rev
C.H.Spurgeon his life and work to his forty third birthday" (long title)
Written by George J. Stevenson, M.A.,
In his preface he writes "opinions only have been excluded;
facts are both important and interesting."
To the point, I will quote from the book a piece which may be of interest.
"When I was very small boy" writes Charles H, Spurgeon,
"I was staying at my grandfather,s , where I had aforetime spent my earliest days,
and as the manner was I read the Scriptures at family prayer.
Once upon a time when reading the passage in the Book of Revelation which mentions the bottomless pit, I paused and said,
Grandpa, what can this mean?
The answer was kind but unsatisfactory----Pooh, pooh, child, go on.
The child intended however to have an explanation, and therefore selected the same chapter morning after morning..................
Well it would be too long to write out the whole chapter.
But it did comfort me somewhat, knowing that not just I had those thoughts.
did not want to derail it so therefore this thresd.
"Where do they go?"
Was a burning question for me when I was younger.
When those in my nearness were not there anymore,
got different answers even lay in the grass for hours looking up at the sky,
but did not see anything.
So, was not satisfied.
Then it came to me that years ago on a trip to London I bought a secondhand book (1877)
called, "The Rev
C.H.Spurgeon his life and work to his forty third birthday" (long title)
Written by George J. Stevenson, M.A.,
In his preface he writes "opinions only have been excluded;
facts are both important and interesting."
To the point, I will quote from the book a piece which may be of interest.
"When I was very small boy" writes Charles H, Spurgeon,
"I was staying at my grandfather,s , where I had aforetime spent my earliest days,
and as the manner was I read the Scriptures at family prayer.
Once upon a time when reading the passage in the Book of Revelation which mentions the bottomless pit, I paused and said,
Grandpa, what can this mean?
The answer was kind but unsatisfactory----Pooh, pooh, child, go on.
The child intended however to have an explanation, and therefore selected the same chapter morning after morning..................
Well it would be too long to write out the whole chapter.
But it did comfort me somewhat, knowing that not just I had those thoughts.
