VIEW OF RESURRECTION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20424, 28 November 1929, Page 11

VIEW OF RESURRECTION

WILL OF, HUNTING MAN.

DISSOLUTION OF THE' BODY.

LONDON, Nov. 19. A remarkable confession of faith is contained in the will of a well-known Hereford hunting man, Henry Alfred Wadworth, who, at the age of 77, was killed while lie was hunting last August, In it he expresses the belief that the true resurrection of the dead and life everlasting are in the! diffusion of the chemical components and the energy of the body, and with this idea he requests that his body be cremated and his ashes scattered over his garden.

The will says: "My body shall be pilaced in a decent receptacle, and taken in my own car to the most convenient crematorium. Only my gardener and chauffeur shall accompany stlie body, taking a small deal box, with which to bring back the ashes, which they shall scatter on my

garden. "I believe that some leading scientists assure mo that I believe rightly, that the organic constituents of my body will quickly be converted into carbonic acid and ammonia. These will, by the law. of diffusion, immediately be distributed to the whole world, and will help to build other plants, and in their turn animals, so that in the future every plantandanima in the world will contain an infinitesimal. P ° r 'l°h n . cr 6 °i b °pnrt, of w body also be dissolved, and by the agency of rain? rivers and ocean currents will, be distributed, but more slowly. "The energy left in my body at d'jath will be degraded to heat, and will quick'y leave it to form part of the" energy of the Un "ThTs°'l believe to be the true resurrection of the dead and iife everlasting. I ?',j ave i n God, but an unknown God, Whom we are incapable of understanding-" " .