The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1920-03-11
Before Sunset

my agree CHEEKY
only Of readers of the London Daily Mail whose columns appeared
recently.
study without girding his soul with remarked this of death:
1T most becoming for who about travel there inquire
and speculate about the journey thiher what kind think What
else do in the interval before sunset?"
The great has this good genaon
made think more easily and talk readily of DEATH
great possession The years EARTH
obvious combination melancholy
pie who declare that life worth living who udcousy describe
active sangune varied human a tears
the truth that mans the desire iveto live
where anyhow price, if only live; live blind
MANNED halt; live bruised body and oujust live What
maady king would forfeit his throne for exchange the
hale body of roadside vagnt? What sick millionaire would pay
his last shilling for the health and the of goaterd? Because
simple truth, it is hngly and rich just to live.
That many people thought DEATH
unlike
morbid talk DEATH only people
talk of mortality then home Sunday dinner and
dismissed mortality contingency We Stunned death much
with unreal dread peposeousy calling Ihe
King of Terro and surrounded with gloomy We brought
children think of death unnatural stroke of
stead of teaching them that death is natural as birth
The great has altered We who have million of
strong the morning dew their spngde gay life
deceny with of perspective beat breasts the
comfortable ovetended gently nursed deaths of mddaged
friends mddeaged selves We have death overwhem the
and hae much when death
kindly release the pains and weakness of the mddagd and elderly
happily learning that changed and rational towards
DEATH Sentenced by the DOCTORS gin the before
fifty friends have of them Goodbye
know how they would have before the had changed
their attitude towards mortality They would have composed their faces
melancholy they They would have pngd the bell
gently ptoed the stairs entered silently and pressed
hand One thing they would have than they would
broken They would have
talked about DEATH
How have my friends acted now the great changed
deaths They bky they
the bell good b $50 that the invalid hear that
heaenng aved They smiling They
tell their and their latest ughbe stories And about 80 of
my so visitors have like Socrates talked about DEATH
ALI of have known young travellers leave life that
with speculatns Beyond We like booked
grants whittier pilgrims have departed that
they against coming
pleasantly think of crowd of loved faces that will await the
wharf.
Nor my who sceptca openmnded concerning
future life those who unsasd with creeds and dogmas
those who rightly scott the matersc arago of "pta talk
the less readily easeuy and cheerfuy of death They
imagine, with Socrates when he said
death be of things: either have
scousness all of anything whatever e say kind of
change and migration of the soul from this world another Now if
there ALL and like sleep when the sleeper does
Dream there would be wonderful gain DEATH For
take that night which he slept deeply that
he dreams beside all the other nights and days his whole
life and h and how them better
happier than that night that the ordinary alone
but the King Persia himself would find them If death
is of this would consider gain the whole of would
longer than sing night But if it journey another
land what and all the dead really there this be
what greater good could there be? To Orphus and
Musaeu Hed and Homer what would that you?
| would give hundred deaths if it S true!"
So mH only Socrates but also Shakespeare Montague
and those dear old zaac Walton and Gilbert White To satisfy
of the curiosity of Samuel Ppys regards London 1919! To
ones departed-paent hnmen friends of whom
young and when they died and surely will be and
n other world
And Socrates philosophy death be added the certainty that
God S magnanmous than
If human being could that Ito understand everything for
give everything be that will
be forgiven beyond.
Thn-whateve happens nothingne another l-what
have fear in death? Why should gay and
pody permit? 1t from them.
For declare that would feel that work journalist
would be the happt ending what has been here helps
others when their life stricken look easily DEATH
Before Sunset they headed article the London paper BE
fore Sunrise Mr. Brex would had its heading for
the New Day he is about which him his cheerful
and splendid optimsm-The Observer Montreal HeraldStar