HUNTING MAN’S FAITH

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1929, Page 2

HUNTING MAN’S FAITH

MATERIA L RESURRECTION. LONDON, Nov. 9. A remarkable confession of faith is contained in the will of a well-known hunting man Henry Alfred Wadworth who, at the age of 77, was killed while he was hunting last August. In it he expresses the belief that the true resurrection of the dead and life everlasting are the diffusion of the chemical components and energy of the body, with this idea he requests that his body be cremated and his ash be scattered over his garden. The will says: “My body shall he placed in a decent receptable and taken in my own ear to the most convenient crematorium. Only my gardener and chauffeur shall accompany the body, taking a small deal box, with which to bring back the ashes, which they shall scatter on my garden.

“I believe, and some lending scientists assure me that I believe rightly, that the organic constituents of my body will quickly be converted into carbonic acid and ammonia. These will, by the law of diffusion, immediately bo distributed to the whole world and will help to build other plants, and in their turn animals, so that in the future every plant and animal in the world will contain an infinitesimal portion of my body. “The organic parts of my body will also be dissolved, and by the agency of rains, rivers, and ocean currents will bo distributed, but -more slowly.

“The energy left in my body at death will be degraded to beat, and will quickly leave it to form part of the energy of the universe. “This I believe to be the true resurrection of the dead and life everlasting. I believe in God, but an unknown God, Whom we are incapable of understanding.