No More Death by Clara Edna Rosencrans

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 15, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 40.

No More Death

By Clara Edna Rosencrans

“AND there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain.” Many and beautiful are the voices we hear as we pass through these lone earth ways, weary and sin-cursed tho they be — music that seems borrowed from a higher, holier sphere, voices of friendship and love that have caught an echo from the land of peace and joy and song; wild bird notes that throb and thrill with an ecstasy half divine. All these are sweet to hear, dulled tho the ears be to the higher harmonies that were the birthright of earth’s first sinless dwellers.

And yet — and yet — having known sorrows, having drunk deep at the fount of pain, there is a voice that is sweeter still — the voice of inspiration, the voice of infinite love that whispers of a land where there shall be no more pain.

Ah, to eyes that have looked their last on the faces of loved ones, to hands that have felt the last clasp, and hearts that have ached and been lonely, how sweet — how inexpressibly sweet — the message, “There shall be no more death”!

In the fearful loss of life sustained in the recent steamship disaster, how many hearts cry out against death — its terrible aloofness, its isolation, and the darkness that shuts the loved ones away forever from the yearning gaze of father, mother, or wife!

O, how the poor heart cries out for just one look into the dear, dead face, to visit the place where lie the last remains! But no; death has come, and the loved one has been snatched away; and never again, till the sea gives up its dead, shall such sight gladden the eye and the heart. Life will go on, and the world will forget. But these will not forget, for memory will ever recall those graves that lie so far beneath the smiling waters; and the pain will not die, nor the longing cease. But to such weary ones comes the blessed thought of a soon coming Saviour and the resurrection from the dead.

Life Boat Mission, Springfield, Missouri.