ALL SAINTS’ DAY
NEW VALUE ON OBSERVANCE. Writing of All Saints’ Day, the Bishop of Norwich says:—The new value set upon the day may date from the sorrows of the former war, when many thousands followed with tender and wistful thoughts the last journey of those who had gone from their homes never to return. It is so again. The veil which hides this life from the life over there seems to become very thin; and some feel that, in part, from the other side, it is actually transparent. Holy Scripture speaks of our being encompassed by a great cloud of victorious witnesses: in running the race that is set before us we are to be cheered on by knowing that their presence, unseen but not unfelt, surrounds those who are now engaged in the same contest. But they are not mere spectators; they witness to the power which once sustained them and how can support us. This sense of a companionship with the departed, so much treasured at All Saints’ tide, does net draw us away into a dreamland, although it does foster, while it lasts, a kind of other-worldliness of spirit, which leads to a revaluation of the things of this life, and, changing our estimate of great and small, teaches us what is really worth while.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1942, Page 4
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219ALL SAINTS’ DAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1942, Page 4
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