WHAT DEATH IS LIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8107, 11 May 1906, Page 4

WHAT DEATH IS LIKE.

KEMAREABLIi SJiKMON BY THE BISHOP OF LOUDON. The Bishop of London delivered a re- ! matkablc sermon at St. Paneras Chureh, in which he gave a forecast of man's feelings when dying. ilis Lordship underwent an operation a day or two ago, and it was while under the iniluence of an anaesthetic that |ie had what he said was an experience of what death would bo like.

"At an operation," he said, " when you receive whatever it is that makes you for the time being insensible, youseem to be carried for the moment out of the body; you are, in fact, out of the body—the body is for the time dead. " Your spirit, your mind, is perfectly active. I daresay it is the experience >.k ,/ others that you seem,to be anepi siviftly under the stars towards your God. " Now, when you are out of the body, or seem to be, if only for a few moments, you realise what death will be.

" I can say this—and I am perfectly certain it is true—that when that moment comes there is only one thing that will spoil the sense of being under the power of loving God, aua mat is unreported and unforgiven sin." ' "

The Bishop also answered several questions that had been sent to him. One who signed herself " A girl in the North," asked " Am I wrong, in wanting to die P" The Bishop said it was morbid in the' young to want to die. We were mepnt to be enjoying here a foretas!" of the joys to come, and his questioner did not seem to have taken quite the right view of life.

Another correspondent, who signed himself "Anti-iNosiii; " inquired why God kept the devil ill xistence. The Bishop sauv bod would not crush free will, Satan was probably a fallen spirit who once was good, and who, having free will, used that free will wrongly. God would not crush the free will of Satan any more than he would crush the free will of man.