Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-15
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n IFE and DEATH two great realities one avoid
u able than the other although people think they
keep death bay by taking journey to another
cline or by employing physicians and nurses.
Life and death, two constant neghbors, always in the
small but these "cities of the dead the only places
touched by the angel OF death. You come out OF your
home n on pg ,md nns n health a
street bltey with keen anticipation OF the days work.
when your suddenly arrested by the sight of
Grape your neighbours doorbel You draw back with
shudder, feeling first if there something in
congruous with the brightness of the morning in that bit
Of Grape that signal Of sorro and bereavement
But learns as he grows older reckon upon the
presence of death in places where it would be ordinarily
unantlcpated and at times when the suddenness OF the
experience strikes like knife to the heart So it
about that there is phrase frequently the lips
of some persons than this: I'm the midst of life
in DEATH is far off become altogether
unfamiliar 1t steals in upon through avenues had
thought barrcaded against it.
20 mother, praying God will save
Thy sailor while thy head is how'd.
His heavy-shotted hammocS-shroud
Drops in his vast and wandering grave.
Life and death, two great mysteries, really
mystery than the other For who has measured
the heights and depths of living: Who really knows
what life itself is, whence it comes what it is for, into
what it is capable of being developed, what its hidden
resources what its ultimate destiny? Death is different
kind mystery; but both life and death often baling
That is, they thus to if we have found
the keys to either mystery Little bits OF steel notched
mpregnable safes SO idea hope vision apparently
the first look insignificant cherished and used swings
of both living and dying. The key to life is made up of
two elements, love and service. The begins
love and serve, many of the tangles around human
existence vanish. The key to the mystery of death is
faith which learns to look upon dying incident
the end of long, perhaps weary perhaps joyous
road On the contrary faith looks upon death gate
way into larger richer life No reach that realm
Of amper existence without passing through this gateway
but faith dwes less the passage, which may take but
instant OF time than the eternity of joy and
felicity which awaits the redeemed soul Faith voices its
Easter song in the sweet belief of Whittier:
That death is but a covered WaY,
That opens into light,
Wherein child of God can stray
Far from the Fathers sight.
So if death be not the terminus of life but the begin
ming of the best kind of life which possibly con-
ceive begin and relate ones existence here to
ones existence beyond
prepare meet thy Cod was the sign that the
Salvation Army soldiers used to paint the rocks along
the highways. The solemn admontion may be narrowly
interpreted but it contains great truth AS Joseph Cook
remarked A man to be happy in heaven have
heavenly mind He who every day thinks nobly feels
deeply acts worthiy preparing himself his God
by and by through living in His here Glorious
rising from the dead Christendom celebrates today.