ONLY AN EPISODE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5360, 5 December 1928, Page 4

ONLY AN EPISODE.

SIB OUTER LODGE ON DEATH.

“NOT A FOE, BUT AN ADVENTURE. ’

Sir. Oliver Lodzft lecturing at the Institute, Leeds, said death after all is but an episode, a casting off of what to some extent has been a burden, but also a thing which has enabled us to dio> our daily work, which is after all our main job here. He added:—

“I do not want people to worry too much about what is going to happen in the future. Our business now is to, do our. daily work, and to utilise the great opportunities offered by this life, and neprer to cut this life short. That is treachery that is an unforgivable thing. “Whatever trouble you are in never think that is the way out. It is not the way cut; it is the way in.

“Death is not a but an inevitable adventure. Be ready tcj meet what is coming without fear, because life continues.

Now abideth these three; things: Faith, Hoge, Love, With these, three things, we shall enter on our life’s pilgrimage, ready to face undismayed whatever lies beyond in the long future of the destiny of man.

“I am absolutely convinced that human existence is not limited to the material body and does not cqase with the death of the br.ain. We make too much erf? .the brain-• It is th& mind and not the brain that designs and plana.” Commenting on the fact that he is in his 78th year, Sir Oliver said:—

“The ojld Psalmist has done a lot of harm by talking about threje score years and ten. In those days there was no sanitation, and people died) off. We ought to be quite young at 70. Aim at 100.

“I venture to say that a century hence a great many will H, and that- the old three score years and ten will become five score, as the natural limit of man’s age-

“Medicine will have improved, sanitation will have improved, habits of life will have become mone wholesome, life will- not be wasted in wars or. vice.

“Ife we live healthily and behave ourselves we; shall touch the century, and still be active* and helpful to our fellows, as please God I hope to be.”