Concerning Death.

Do not fear death, but trust your soul's future to God, its Maker. When you lose a loved one leave him or her to God, as Christ will not help you. The clerics will ask you (taking advantage of your grief) to throw yourself upon Christ. But why bring him in, as he is only the Alexandrian creed mongers' creation. God has mercifully arranged that time shall heal your grief. Do not b solitary, but keep yourself employed and take a change of scene if you can Reverently see to the burial of the dead, or your conscience will blame you for your neglect Do not follow Christ's advice to "let the dead bury the dead." Trust me when I tell you that God is not alone the only guardian of the departed, but your true and ever present comforter. Help those in need. Do good works; but do not rely upon prayers. Have every confidence that, if it should be for your good, our good Creater will allow you to meet hereafter the soul of the loved one passed away. Live your life here, so that when you die your spirit or soul may face God honestly and say : "Lord, I heartily grieved for the loved ones gone, and tried bravely to live a good life thereafter, in thought. and word, and deed." If you do that, God may reward you, for He ever recognises goodness. If He can govern the myriad electrons forming an atom (a whole world in itself), or the long sustained emanations from a grain of radium, surely to Him, its maker, is best left the care of the soul of the departed, and your future relations with it. Trust in God and do right.

I may be allowed to say in conclusion these parting words:—The Grace of our Loving, Ever Present and Merciful God; your humble reverence for His holy name, and your unselfish fellowship with each other on earth, be with you all, this day and ever more.