MR BENSON'S "GATE OF DEATH."
Mr A. C. Benson says of his work, "Gate of Death," recently published, that his book "deals with the saddest, darkest, most solemn, most inevitable, most tremendous fact in the world—death; the one event of awful significance for everyone, small or great, noble or base, wise or dolt, that is born into the world. It is not a complete, nor a comprehensive, nor a philosophical treatment of subject; it is nothing but the record of the sincere and faltering [thoughts of one who, in 'he midst of a very ordinary and commonplace life, with no deep reserves of wisdom, faith, or tenderness, had just to interpret it as best lie could." "Science," ho adds, "tells us nothing.of what we shall be, and thus, by reason of it 3 explorations into what can ba known, has even heightened the gloom and the terror of the unknown and the unexpected. And thus it seems to us, at this point of time, as though the more we know of God and the designs of God, the less we understand Him."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3186, 11 May 1909, Page 4
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182MR BENSON'S "GATE OF DEATH." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3186, 11 May 1909, Page 4
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