DEATH.
Death comes to a man as a spiritual necessity. It is an angel of lore and mercy, and not the enemy of mankind. When all other friends fail to bring relief, death, enters, and the pain racked body ceases its throes and moanings, the eyes f grow bright with spiritual lustre,'and'the , word " adieu " is breathed from lips, soon to moulder into dnst again. Then why ! picture death as an enemy of the, race ?. Why speak of death with bated breath and blanched cheek P Should we not rather give thft true interpretation of death and its necessity f What would become of the world if there were no death? What would .be the condition, among men if they could not die? What a sight .the world would present, if men and women growing old, sighing for a change, but with no hopes of relief? And it should be remembered that 'tis not only man that dies —every liring object passes through the same change. Suppose, by an infinite decree, death in animal life became an impossibility, how long before there would be no room for a human being upon this world of yonrsP Can you conceive a picture with more deformities than this p How long before the vaulted .
heavens would be filled with the echoes of your appeals for a change to come, and relieve you of these disgusting sights P Viewed in this light, which is. the light of reason, can you say that death is an enemy P Bather call it the best friend man has or can ever know. The separation of friends is always attended with grief. We lore to see the faces of our friends. We love the grasp of their hands, and we lore to listen to the voices, which are musical to us; but when it is known that death is but a to a better land, and that.all will meet again, joy should take the place of grief, and instead of closing your doors and windows, and putting* on garments which make the heart sick, you should open wide the doors and windows of your mansions, and invite the angels to come in and make your homes their abiding place.
—Olive Branch.
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Thames Star, Issue 3715, 20 November 1880, Page 1
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