"PASSING ON"
Sir,-Your correspondent A. H. Reed is not the first, and probably will not be the last, to say "Thereis no death." The very first one to express these sentiments was the serpent in the Garden of Eden and since that time the punishment of death which came upon. Adam and Eve, because of disobedience, has been overlooked in an effort to comfort the bereaved by a belief in that serpent’s lie. Referring to the book which your correspondent mentions so warmly, but allows to be paraphrased for him, the Psalmist David says, "In death there is no remembrance of Thee (God): in the grave who shall give Thee thanks?" The King Solomon says, "For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything . . . their love, their hatred and their envy is perished." No reference to "passing on" here. The hope of these men was the hope of Paul-resur-rection from death at the return of Christ to the earth. "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise. . ." At this time the "meek shall inherit the earth," and not a place of retirement in the heavens which has only a mythological and not a scriptural foundation. Well done, "Sundowner"! Let us clear away these meaningless expressions which have been built over years of jenorance and superstition.
S.
JACKSON
Tawa Flat)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 5
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246"PASSING ON" New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 5
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