| Show DEATH NOT PAINFUL la Is death painful la is a question inter es tingly discussed by a writer in a reent rent reent number of the sunday Maga magazine it is ia unquestionably true that those who seriously meditate upon questions connected with the physical dissolution of the body still number some who do so BO with fear and trembling has bag long thrown its heavenly liht light upon the path that leads through the dark valley and science too has given assurances tb that at when death cornea comes the most moat trying ordeals are already pact neat yet many have never been able to form a probably correct idea or 01 the he journey as ae regards the physical sensation ensa tion thereof in the magazine article referred to the author the utterances of dying persons showing bowing that their experience is contrary to once popular suppositions louis XIV when dying asked his big surrounding friends friende why weep you did you think I 1 should live forever then after a pause he added 41 4 thought dying would be harder ir dr hunters lost words are very re mar kabie he said if I 1 had bad strength to hold a pen I 1 would write down how easy and pleasant a thing it la Is to die the late archbishop of canterbury as ai the death agony befell him re marked it in ia really nothing much otter after fter alle all general stonewall jack son aona last laet moments on earth are described bribed an aa follows fol lowa whon when told ahat he had only about two hours to live he answered very avery good it to is all right order A P hill to prepare for action pass the infantry to the front rapidly tell major haw hawkes kes 1 presently a smile mile of ineffable sweetness spread itself over cover his pale face and he said mid quietly and with an expression of relief let us cron over the river and teat refit under the shade of the trees 9 to these theme a great many more instas oes of a nature might be added they hey all go to prove that whim when the raland is peaceful and ami the conscience clear feifar ot of guilt death has haa jost its terror it is recorded ahat hatt the medical attendant upon oliver goldsmith in the lost jaet hour of the poet asked him if there here was wag any thing to is particular upon spon his bis mind lindaa as he could not otherwise account for his fei feverish temperature goldsmith admitted that he was worried about his unpaid debts to others the last jait journey is rendered difficult because their hearts are stilt still clinging to their earthly possessions when garrick showed dr johnson his bis palatial residence the latter said ah ab david these are the things that make death terrible 91 john Web We leyB bleys view upon this mat ter Is given in his reply to a lady who once asked the famous preacher what he would do if he know knew that he was going to die the next night at twelve his answer was 1 I should preach this night at gloucester and again ata tomorrow morang morl Dg after that I 1 should ride to tewkesbury preach in the afternoon and meet the societies in the evening I 1 should then repair to friend martins Marti riPs house who expects to entertain me converse converge and pray with ane family as usual retire to my bed bad at 10 o commend oom menil myself to my aly heavenly father lie ile down to rest and wake up in lory glory IS to a people abe like like true latter jay Sainto view life and death in the clear light or modern revelation death to is but a welcome welcom release after a falahi u ly preformed mission it is in to them a return to a fattier Pat nera is house to friends and home why should it be painful or have any terrors |
