Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Gate of Death, Vol. 5: A Diary
What is than our fathers knew; but science tells us nothing of what we shall be, and thus, by rea son of its explorations into what can be known, has even heightened the gloom and the terror of the unknown and the unexplored. And thus it seems to us, at this point of time, as though the more we know of God and the designs of God, the less we understand Him some day indeed it may be that our children, in the light of a fuller knowledge, may look back and wonder how we can have borne to live thus, with our uncertain knowledge, our diminished faith; but I would rather believe that God proportions our faith and our courage to our need and to our pain. Such value as these pages may possess will be due to the fact that the writer has tried, as simply and sincerely as he can, to look his experiences stead ily in the face, not to disguise his bewilderment, his suffering, and his fear and, at the same time, not to attempt to explain away, in a faithless and despondent spirit, the hopes, the instincts, the.
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