| Show DOES lOES DOE DEATH 11 EXI EX ENI I J ALL OUR OUI TROUBLES 0 ES A pretty old follow fellow retired from business business- who has little to do lo but to meditate over the lie past and to speculate as to the future has s sent nt a 0 remarkably remarkably remark remark- nb ably interesting letter leter to the lie New Nev York yorkS ork S Sun U fl It I Is concerned with wih human hUlan immortality immor Immor- of the lie truth of which of-which which the pret pr tt t- t t ty old fellow says S 'S he Is convinced and though it I s sets ts forth fort nothing n new w it I puts the lie blessings man ma may expect from death In a very verS novel nov nov- nove el ci high c i e light light- c i What hat strikes the lie pr pretty olt fellow most forcibly is that lint d death i iwi will wi re re- re levo us ims of all al the pains and penalties associated with wh our physical bodies That seems a trite enough reflection until one comes to see how nearly th the I classification Includes everything In our existence In general terms death will wi remove mill all 01 our causes for or fear tIme fear oar the thc team fear l' l o or of poverty of or shame of disgrace of or ill illness ine ill ill- i- i ne ness s of or pain of death loath itself J It will wil wi relieve u us of or the severe severo and generally distasteful labor of making a u living It I will wi relieve us from mom slavery to mean and amid ant potty petty ambitions such such- as ac ambition for famo fame social socil position w wealth am and sensual pleasures pleasures pleasures' In one word wort 1 it I will wIl relieve us from flom o er everything that tha hurts hurls perplexes and saddens us now Nearly everything that we call as the pretty old fellow elow p Jo points ints out Is entirely connected with wih the qt me needs and passions of our bodies Murder theft licentiousness and nd greed are art solely the time outcome of our physical environment and th the lie de destructive emotions emo erno- tons of anger angel hatred je jealousy olIS and nd absurd pride ne are tho ho offspring of or diseased d hodl bodily conditions 1 But it I Is dangerous to pursue C the argument further for we should find It leading us through hou s theory that the world is real a a aprison Prison rI on In which It I is foolish to look f r happiness happiness hap hap- pines and from rota which w we ought to be glad glad to be he lell released into the Buddhist doctrine that lint happiness Is to o be found on only in Nirvana Irana which is a state of being hardly to be distinguished from irn being not Itself Let us halt her hen her therefore and I content ourselves to rest 11 like lie tho tl pretty Aid fellow In lii SL St Pauls Paul's as assurance ns- ns that eye hath bath not seen nor c. c cam ar al heard neither hath bath It I entered Into the he heart of man to conceive the he things which God hath bath prepared red for them who ho love him when t death deah ath has hns ended trouble ami I left Ct the spirit free tree Chicago o Jo Journal ral |
