52/55 SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.

SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.
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To those whose creedal belief is as broad as heaven itself, and who understand the meaning of Christ’s words: “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me,” the idea of God making use of the discarnate-spirits of Eastern people is not only not repugnant but quite intelligible, fitting and just, and in accordance with Christ’s promise and God’s eternal laws.

God’s way are always sound and intelligible, although men cannot at all times discern this. He could not possibly err in judgment. He could not err, for example, in forcing uncongenial spirits to commingle, in linking up antagonistic natures, or in bringing into affinity spirits that are as far apart as the poles. In God’s illimitable universe, ” Like attracts Like,” and this is a law that knows no change.

Personally I think God’s great scheme of salvation includes the peoples of all nations, and that not one of any language, creed or colour can possibly be left out or forgotten by the Supreme Intelligence.

Moreover, I have long recognised that from among the peoples of India, China, and other eastern countries, God has gathered in many a saint, and that even to-day among the races of Hindustan, from the countless millions of Buddhists in China and elsewhere, as also from among the followers of Mahomed, does He continue to draw a goodly company of faithful souls, to whom comes the glad message—” Well done! “

I am, moreover, a firm believer in the broad sweep of God’s mighty Redemptive scheme, and have long contended that His House is full of innumerable courts wherein abide those who, through the countless aeons of time, irrespective of race or religion, have so played their part on Life’s stage as to ensure fitting habitation in one of the Father’s ” Many Mansions.”

To such an one may fittingly come those discarnate-spirits of an Eastern people whom he not only believes in as forming one link in God’s endless chain of events, but loves for their gentle goodness, their childlike simplicity and, in numerous instances, for that beautiful purity of life which is, alas, not too common a characteristic of Christian people.