Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-22
LEAVE OFF DEPRESSING
WEEDS OF MOURNING
Or. Bowie Says World Is Beginning
to Think New Thought
of Death.
TRIUMPH OF y HUMAN SOUL
Sees New Vision in Worlds Expert
encc OF High Courage of Youth
Fighting for a Great Ideal-SOI-
dier's Death n Sunset Of Glory.

Essentially military in character
was the warning OF Rev. Walter Rus
sell Bowie, -. D.. rector OF st. Paurs
Episcopal Church. to his congregation
at the service last night. that in the
sim plicity of the service and the abb
scnce OF ritual his people should
not forget that they were standing at
attention, as it were, before the Great
Captain. and that they should not al
low themselves to go through the SER
vice in Slovenly manner.
To the congregation of st. Paurs DR..
Bowics sermons. while he is waiting
Tor orders and passage abroad as chap
lain with the National Army have a
spccial Significance. and his sermon last
night. The New Death" carried with
1t an appeal that brought instan. re-
Spouse from the anxious hearts of the
many In the audience who have loved
ones overseas In the lighting line.
In the vastness of the worlds sacri-
flee at the present time. DR.. Bowie de-
clarcd, the Christian world has begun
to think new thought of death. and
the minds and hearts and imaginations
of Christian people have been lifted up
TO sec death in a new light.
DEATH or SOLDIER
SUNSET OF GLORY
Before this war. the chaplain said
We were accustomed to think of death
as more or less isolated experience
individual. solitary. singly. Death to-
day is tho greatest fact OF which the
world Is conscious. Out of human
heartbrcak ii has been lifted up into
beauty and grandeur. and because SO
many young men have died gallantlv
bravcly. with the high courage OF youth
nEhtinS FOR great ideal. death in
their case has been inter,Yincd with
wonderful impulses. with romance ard
with srandeur-the final triumph of
a human soul
Dr. Bowie dwelt on this new inter
probation OF death as the result of the
present world-tra Eedy. since the mere
tact that thousands Of young men were
laying down their lives riskine all
that this world holds in the balance
Tor the things of the soul. proves in
itself the invincible supremacy of hui
man pcrsonality-that when the great
chaiienEe comes the human spirit can
rise to new and broader visions of
ungucssed splendor.
lie referred TO death as the little In :
tcrlude of shadow" prcfacing the
greatness OF service beyond To us
who are left behind. he said. those
gallant spirits have left the heritage
OF their unfinished work With this
heritage has come to Christian people
the chance to rise above the old WAYS
and customs OF other years, and Il
should not be accounted strange
thing now to leave off the DEPRESSING
weeds Of mourning-a custom un-
christian In origin. depressing in fact
symbolizing mortality rather than i'm
mortality-at this period of the histor,
of the world"
In closing. DR.. Bowie. referred to the
beautiful expression OF unconsciou.
poetical significance that the British
have for death-"Going West" the,
call it-with the visions invoked OF
sailing out into the limitncss sunset
of glory. wonder and mystery--awaS
from the limited perspective OF earth.
bound vision.