GEORGE SPRING MERRIAM
American author and editor (1843 - 1914)
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No man who is fit to live need fear to die. Poor, timorous,
faithless souls that we are! How we shall smile at our vain
alarms when the worst has happened! To us here, death is the
most terrible thing we know. But when we have tasted its
reality, it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of
ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man. It will
be what home is to the exile. It will be what the loved one
given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it, a solemn
gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning
lighting up the sky. Our fears are the terror of children in the
night. The night with its terrors, its darkness, its feverish
dreams, is passing away; and when we awake, it will be into the
sunlight of God.
- [Death]
Last Revised: 2008 April 9
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