The herald., 1894-03-04

perieuce that l haven't any hankering
after, anyway. | suppose, though,
must submit TO this inevitable decree oi
God aud my own nature. shall am
however, to make it about the last
thing | shall do in this world. | regret
that man must die at all, but since. in
the wisdom OF God, we all must die,
wan. to make the best Of life possible, 20
that when death comes l shall have no
regrets.
"From physical standpoint l prefer
to shuttle off this mortal COLI before
the helplessness and weakness of very
old age make me a burden to my friends.
should prefer to die without the pain
we usually imagine accompanies death.
| should want to be surrounded by my
friends and family, and to quietly drift
out to the silent sea as a ship, loosed
from her moorings, drifts out and is
eoon lost to view"
II should want to 20 in the full pos-
session of my mental powers. | want
to be conscioue when my feet touch the
waters of that river which is dreaded by
all the living. According to my idea,
death is simply the hour OF release to
the child OF God from the limitations
and restrictions that sin has placed upon
us in this life. Hence | want to fully
experience the mental widening which
| expect will pe mine when this tene-
ment OF clay shall give up it's heaven
born possession to soar in the realms
where God has designed the righteous
shall live.
Spiritually speaking, / hope to be
ready when the summons shall come.
| nnnl IN hA wi hnnt iaar nf Houfh and
In the full hope of the resurrection.
believe that as Christian | posssas the
divine life and the divine nature now,
and that death will only change my re-
lstionship TO this world and to God
and that like plant transplanted from
the frgld zone to this eemi-tropical
cline / shall develop there with
marvellous rapidity, and that the prnci-
pal JOY in hesven-which is a condition,
state rather than place-wil be in
the growth in knowledge, power and
true life. | want then to die in the full
possession OF all my powers and in the
Joyous certainty of the continuation OF
the lie that | now have in Chriot
Jesus"
Rev. William Lewis Dye, secretary to
his lordship, the biahop, expressed a
dislike to dying in hospital or any
public Institution.
Il would prefer" he said, "a sickness
OF about two weeks, without much acute
pain: neither sudden nor lingering
death are to my notion. | would prefer
to die in possession OF my faculties rath-
or than in state OF insensi bllity, and
also at peace with every one, and of
course at peace with God, and without
debts or lawsuits.
Would prefer TO die at home, with
parents and relatives. rather than
among strangers, and / would not like
to die in any hospital or other public
institution.
"Iregard death as a transition from
an uncertain state to a fixed one. This
fixed state; be itshappy or otherwise,
will. according to my belief, be eternal.
For that reason ! would hope to die in
full possession Of consciousness. in order
o be able TO have true sorrow for my
sins belofe expiring. II thoughtdeath
near, | would try TO be rec0nciled with
every one with whom might chance to
be at variance. II l had any means,
should endeavor to have 8 will made in
go clear y manner that after my death
there could be no contest among my
relatives and other beneficaries.
81 am not much in favor OF pompous
and ostsntstioue funerals. would like
to be laid to res, with an amount OF
decent solemnity appropriate to my
priestlY character, but without the use.
less expense OF q grand parade. | hope
those who may have known and loved
me during hie will not forget to pray for
my aoul after my death"
Clerk Robinson, Mayor Rowan's
emanueDsie, was rather unwilling to
consider such subject. He said he
strongly objected to dying in any men
ner whatever but il his wishes are con-
suited he will declare in favor of old
age, the older the better
Deputy City Attorney Dunn's ideas on
the subject were those of sybarite,
until he learnt they were for publica-
ton, when he awore that death by
bullet was the only one for him.
Councilman Teed.-L would want to
meet my death suddenly. | think the
shock to ones family must be lees pain
ful when one dies so, than if the end
comes at the close of long sickness,
and believe they are the only ones to
be considered in such a case.
Fire Chief Moriarty wouldn't express
an opinion. He declared that he had
been very near death several times, and
the experience had been so very un.
pleasant that he couldn't sse room for
any preference in the matter.
City Clerk Luckenbach said 81 want
to die in full possession of all my facul-
ties and senses, surrounded by my fam
lily, and in the full consciousness that
| am ready to answer for ell my, seds
in the world to come"
Councilman Innes favored the sudden
end idea; he said when my time
comes, want it to come so quickly that
| shall know nothing about it."
City Attorney Mcfarland declared he
would rather die of old age than any
thing else. about ITO will just suit
me-" he said.
Councilman Campbell said: ~ really
can't say. 1 don't think it much mat
ters. believe that at those times ma
ture is good to q man and he suffers no
more one way than another. | believe
our faculties and powers of suffering are
80 deadened that we suffer but little.
can tell you the worst way. in my
opinion, though, and that ia to die by
execution"
Tom Strohm doesn't want to die at
all. and don't want to think about it.
he says, though, that he will be ready
when the time comes.
Councilman Muneon has just got over
q sickness, and he said there was no
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