The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-12-19
DOES DEATH END ALL?

Contributed by a Grangeville Bust
ness Man,
The other day l said to my little boy,
come on, son. and we will 90 down to
the store and will get you a new suit
of clothes" Can you imagine that lit
tie fellow crying as | said that to him?
No, indeed. there was no sorrow i'll that
little face, bun unbounded joy; joy all
the way down town; JOY at the laying
away of the old tattered garments; joy
at the putting on of the new That
evening before he took off these new
clothes preparatory to going to bed,
saw an excellent opportunity to i'm
press Il lesson ON his mind so took him
on my lap. and said: Life is just like
that suit of clothes. my boy As the
boy lives inside of the clothes, SO we
have II soul that lives inside our bodies.
Our soul is our real self that makes the
body do the things that ii wants it to
do. When the body does wrong it is
because the soul inside lets it do it, and
when the body does right ii is because
the soul inside is good and makes it do
right
Some day God will take the old body
away just as we took the old clothes
away. and he will give us Il new life.
When we are transformed from the old
life To the new one it is called death.
but the new life is SO much nicer than
this one that we should feel just as
happy as We do when we put the old
suit of clothes away for the new one
For in the new life we will not have
amy bodies like we do here so there will
not be any more sickness, nor sorrow,
IA
we should look forward to death with
joy and not with SORROW the way some
people do. But that is because they do
not understand what death really is,
or they would not he sad and cry.
1t must have been this that Miss
! Harrington was thinking Of when she
wrote that beautiful little poem call
ed The Land of Beginning Again" 1t
| starts out by saying:
Il wish that there was some wonder
full place
Called the land of beginning again,
| Where all our mistakes and all our
heart aches
And all our poor selfish grief
Could be dropped like IA ragged old coat
ut the door,
And never put on again
me nttle fellow sat wrapped III won
derment as this new vision of life flash
ed across his mind. and then looking
into my eyes i'll study said "Oh my
! papa, YOU know Il whole lot, don't YOU ?
How did You come to know all this. Did
you die once?
Now | was glad to hear him ask that
question for ii opened the door into
the next room, that to me had contain
ed the key of knowledge of the new
life, and | wanted to lead him to the
same source of wisdom that my father
had led me years ago when | was a
little fellow like my queStioner.
No, my SON. | answered; I'VE never
live in this world but once and we new
or die but once, and when we die and &c
into the next world we are so happy
that we do not want to come back here
any more. But once upon time God
opened the door into heaven and gave
the whole world vision of some OF
the wonderful things he has for us
over there. He let the spirit of His
son come down to earth and live in d
fleshly body like ours, inst like oul
spirit is living in our bodies now. He
told us whole lot about God and how
we ought to live here on earth SO as tt
be happy. The name of his body was