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...talk before the Christian Association last evening on recent discoveries made at Jerusalem by which the probable locality of the site of the Crucifixion has been ascertained. The old traditions about this site were that it was discovered by the mother of the Emperor Constantine. who learned through a vision. Excavations were made, the story tells, and three crosses were round. The cross of Christ was pointed out by a sick woman, who was healed by touching it. The site as thus determined was within the second wall of the city, that which stood in the time of Christ...
...tree, growing and changing because it is a living thing. Its growth is similar to that in literature; not that in science, where the messages and discoveries are definite. Literature, art, and religion deal with the infinite. Every new poet brings a new message, every prophet sees a new vision, perhaps not as great as a previous one but yet a new one. In the early history of Europe every distinct province had its own deity. In fact the theology of progression is distinctively a feudal theology. Slowly the people came to believe in one God, but still there remained...
Then came Manfred, Tasso and several songs inspired by friendship for Shelley and his exile. In Venice were written Don Juan; then his dramas, none of them masterpieces, and the Vision of Justice, which caused great consternation. Don Juan is a picture of the world as Byron saw it; he had drunk the cup of pleasure and had found all vanitus vanitatum...
...called Census of Hallucinations, of which the results must be communicated in the summer of 1892 to the International Congress of Experimental Psychology, which then meets in England. The object of the Census is to find what proportion of persons in the community have seen a vision, heard a voice, or felt a touch when no one was physically present to account for the phenomenon. Incidentally a large amount of material for the comparative study of hallucinations and apparitions is swept in. I have now the answers "yes" or "no" from upwards of 5,000 persons, and accounts...
...Christ who strengthened me." Paul does not seem to imply that he is miraculously gifted with strength of mind and purpose but simply that an entire dependence on Christ is strength of itself although separate from any tangible manifestation of assistance. Paul saw Christ in his dreams and the vision always helped him, but even these appearances probably came to him because he thought of his divine leader so often, and always as a leader who was anxious to aid and comfort...