APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
As I stood behind the coffin of my little son the other day, with my mind bent on anything but disputation, the officiating minister read, as a part of his duty the words, ‘’lt tlu> dead rise not again, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'’ J cannot tell you how inexpressibly they shocked me. Paul had neither wife nor child, or lie must have knortii that his alternative involved a blasphemy against all that "as best and noblest in human nature. I could have Laughed with scorn. What! because I am face to face with irreparable loss, because 1. have given back to the source from whence it came, the cause of a great happiness, still retaining through all my life the blessings which have sprung and will spring from that cause, I am to renounce my manhood, and howling, grovel in bestiality? Why, the very apes know hotter, and if you shoot their young the poor brutes grieve tlieT grief out and do not immediately 7 seek distraction in a gorge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1932, Page 1
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178APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1932, Page 1
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