And know the end of strife, and taste the deathless life,
And joy without a fear, and smile without a tear,
And work, nor care to rest, and find the last the best.
(691)
Death-rate Reduced—See [Improved Conditions].
Death, Religion in—See [Religion to Die By].
DEATH, SPIRITUAL
Says a writer in the North China Herald:
One of the facts that ineffaceably cut into my memory during my first winter in New-chwang was the finding on one morning about New Year’s time thirty-five masses of ice, each mass having been a living man at 10 o’clock the preceding night. The thermometer was a good bit below zero. The men had just left the opium dens, where they had been enjoying themselves. The keen air sent them to sleep, and they never wakened.
The freezing was only the external manifestation of a spiritual benumbing that long before existed within. (Text.)