Death.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XVII, Issue 1, 1 July 1926, Page 55 (Supplement)

Death.

"The body is rather a miisance to get rid of, and when the separation takes place we should try to regard the process with intelligence and not with emotion. Don 't be afraid of the word ' Death. ; There is" m a way death, but there is no extinction. Whatever you think about the body, don't think about the grave with emotion/Think of graves as little as possible. There has been' too much superstition about graves. There are no dead m the churchyard. I have never boon to see my son Raymond's grave m France. He has asked me not to. If people would get over the trouble of waiting for a general resurrection and all that medieval superstition, they would begin to regard death as an adventure, an episode which is bound to come, something we may be ready for and welcome when it comes and not be afraid of. We don 't fear when we emigrate. We work upon the fresh conditions before U3 with-inter-est and not with apprehension. That is how I would urge you to look forward to death. What happens to us elsewhere depends on what we have done here, and according to how we have made use of our opportunity we may go up or we. may go ; down. Matter looms far too high m our attitude here. Let us not take a pitiable outlook. Lift up your hearts, ' greet the unseen with a cheer. ' Nothing is too great or too good to be true. The possibilities open to us are beyond our imagination." — Sir Oliver Lodge.