| Show Think PIll I 1 of 01 LT Death 5 i as a Friend and andS S Not as Your Foe It Is the Only Certain Thing in Life A Change of World Is Desirable TheS The S Happiest Life fe Wo Would ld Pall If If That Change Did Not Come S By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX J RE RECRIMINATION AID Lifo Life to Death Methinks If It I Iwer SAID S were you OU I would not carry such an nn 0 awesome some face To terrify the helpless hum human n race And if indeed those wondrous tales be betrue betrue betrue true Of Ot happiness beyond and if I know knew About bout the lie boasted blessings of r that place I would not hide so miserly all trace Of or my 01 vast ast knowledge Death If Jt I 1 were you ou B But t like a a. glorious angel I would lean Above the pathway of ot each sorrowing soul boul Hope In my n-my eyes and comfort in m my breath Arid And strong conviction in my radiant mien The while I whispered o of that beauteous goal This Timis would I do If it I were you OU 0 O D Death ath Said Death Duth to Life Lite If I were YO you my friend I would not lure confiding BOU souls oula each day With fair false smiles to enter on a aT a way So filled Shed with nh pain and trouble to the end I would not tempt those whom I should defend deen Nor stand unmoved and ande see them COutray go CO astray S Nor would I force tore unwilling souls souti to atoy ta Who longed for freedom were Yere I you my friend But like a a. tender mother I would tile take The Tb weary world upon my sheltering breast And wipe away it its tsars tears and eo soothe the Its Ita strife I would fulfill my promises promise and make Mr MY children blest bless me aa u they sank ank to res rest Where now they th y curse curse curie if I 1 were Wen you O 0 Life 1 Life made no answer and nd Death spoke spokeS S again I 1 would not woe not woo woe from Gods God's sweet nothIngness noth- noth S 'S A A. to- to to-b to to If if I I not rot bless bleu And Arid crown It with nfl all Joy If It unto men My Iy face faco seems acorns awesome tell me me r Life LIte fe why then I Do they pursue me mad for tor my mr caress Believing ing In my silence lies redress For Tor your o r loud falsehoods So Death e again Oh Oh It I Is well for or you ou I am sin not fair Well that I hide behind a It voiceless tomb The mighty secrets of that other place Else would you ou stand in impotent despair While unfledged souls straight from rom the mothers mother's womb Rushed flushed to my arms and spat upon your our face lace Copyright 1913 by Star Company lIE main object of most human beIngs beings be be- T I TUB ings logs Isto IsU avoid death ane and yet death Is the only certain thing In life lite From the hour we e draw the first breath wo we are going forward to meet death 5 Instead of ot regarding death as a foe oe would it not be more sensible to think of oC f fit it as ass a friend One Ono who comes to take us on a de delightful de- de Journey Journe I 1 There are some advanced ad metaphysicians clans who tall talk and write about the poi poe O.- O. of oC living U continually and perpetually In this bod body George Francis Train declared he should do so He believed he had overcome O death He believed he had acquired the life Ure habit arid and he be meant to prove pro that list there was no need of oC changing changing- bodies But his bod body Is now dust duet Mary Ial Baker Eddy and Helen Williams and Wallace Wattles and Eleanor Kirk aUta all aU ta talked this same philosophy all believed they had entered upon ulon life Ute eternal Inthis in this body on this earth Yet Tet all 1111 are gathered to their fathers All Alt changed their worlds All AU live hive or on other planes in hl higher her states state of ot consciousness S No doubt all sit come near the old scenes and influence those whose minds aro are tuned In the samo 1 key ey at times Yet th they y have hae experienced that change which we call CAli death To me this change seems seem desirable I have seen Been three mature people pa pass through the change chanse and arid to each ono one I It meant deliverance and each face wore worean worean an expression of oC peace and Joy arid and satIsfaction sat BAt cUon after arter the great event had taken place S The Tho most glorious music if It played continually ceases ceasel to please the tho ear The most appetizing food loses its Us taste If It continually taken and life Ute would pall Pan upon the happiest heart if It it un underwent no change of death The good swimmer enjoys his sea bath best when lightly clad How much more delightful must be motion in space when whan the body is II cast cast- aside We have han many bodies the physical one meant only for earth The Tue astral body meant only for the astral plane the desire body which Is 1 the vehicle our emotions have made and which will eventually drop away as II th the tho others will mil and leave heave us In the spiritual bod body In each of t these ee bodies we e will wUl have new and wonderful experiences And we ice will pass onward from plane Iane to plane plant meeting those who have been dear delU to us on earth and learning new truths and gaining new powers to h help lp us when we again after long periods of time return to finish the work we leave undone undone un un- un- un done here now S Each Bach one of ot us UI ought to think of these things calmly and with reverence and anti with faith In Gods God's great goodness We should in the midst of ot all aft our pleasures and anel 1 pursuits and ambitions an and occupations occupations give Rive a a. titUs little time every day to happy thoughts of ot that hat wonderful change called death eath and we should know that Just as s we think of It and Just as w. w we think of life here so will that life Ufo be to which death eth guides us U We aro building our heavens sand land our h hells S as RS we pass along the earth carth Cheerfulness hope goo r will generosity generos generos- Ity patience gratitude e. e love reverence industry truthfulness tm admiration of the th 1 beautiful the seeking for or beauty in n things order and y system tem ane and harmony harmony- all th these theae e qualities are stones which are oue being laid in the mansion in the skies which we wilt will occupy revenge hate ill III wilt will greed and all the other unlovely faults of himman hu human human him hu- man nature build hells hell for souls to dwell in until they thoy work their way out Into fairer realms Choose your material with care then and give a little a-little little time tim every every day to thinkIng thinking think think- ing hug your heaven into shape ready for tor forthe the tho occupancy of or your soul when Whelm it passes onward And think o of death as aa your great good guide not as your our hideous enem en- en en en- em emy |
