Show Tendency to Drop Use Vae of Solemn Word Death The word translation In Its sense of the removal of a person to heaven concerns such removal of a mortal body In ID life as the translation of Enoch Transition is passage from one place or condition or action to another as in biology the change of ofa a tadpole to a frog or In geology of one formation Into another or a change from heat to cold Neither the word transition nor Dor the word translation translation trans lation ought to be he used In a letter I of condolence The correct word to use Is unquestionably passing which is defined denned as a going away departIng departing departing depart depart- ing hence bence dying from the verb to topas pass pas to go beyond recognition by the senses to depart from Ute life In which case the verb Is followed by away as asIn asIn asIn In the sentence All AU earthly things must pass pas away or Ir She passed away last night nut But what word Is I. there that Is more solemn than the word ward death It Itself ReU and why should not one make use lire of It Among other w words are ore decease demise departure and desolation Literary Digest |