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Title: The Life of the Waiting Soul
in the Intermediate State

Author: R. E. Sanderson

Release Date: June 20, 2007 [eBook #21881]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1900 Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. edition by David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

THE LIFE
OF
THE WAITING SOUL
IN
THE INTERMEDIATE STATE.

BY
_R. E. SANDERSON_, _D.D._,
ST. MICHAEL, BRIGHTON; CANON RESIDENTIARY OF CHICHESTER
CATHEDRAL; FORMERLY HEAD MASTER OF
LANCING COLLEGE.

London:
WELLS GARDNER, DARTON & CO.,
3 PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, E.C.

FIRST EDITION, MAY, 1896.
SECOND ,, SEP., ,,
THIRD ,, FEB., 1897.
FOURTH ,, JAN., 1898.
FIFTH ,, FEB., 1900.

PREFACE.

These Addresses were delivered in Chichester Cathedral, and subsequently,
with slight alterations, at Hastings. They would not have been printed
but at the urgent request of very many who heard them preached. It
should be remembered that they are not a theological treatise, but a
course of plain words addressed to an ordinary congregation. It seemed
desirable to awaken interest in a subject which has dropped out of
English Christian thought, and almost out of people's knowledge. The
Addresses are an attempt to explain what can be known about the
Intermediate Life. There is nothing new in them. If there were,
probably what is new would not be true.

The doctrines of so-called "Universalism" and "Conditional Immortality"
are not touched upon. They do not belong to the period which is covered
by the Intermediate State. Moreover, I doubt whether we can ever regard
those doctrines as anything more than speculations invented to answer
modern and possibly ephemeral objections.

How much I have unconsciously been indebted to those who have dealt with
this subject more fully, I hardly know. One reads and remembers, and
reproduces in preaching, often without thought of the sources from which
material has been drawn. I gratefully acknowledge in the notes what I
know to be deb