Racial Representatives and the Nature of Death
The racial representatives on our front cover page are as follows: In the rear on the left is Dr. W. T. Johnson, pastor of the First African Baptist Church of Richmond, Va. Beside him stands Moses K. Nakuina, a Hawaiian, president of the Christian Endeavor Territorial Union, of Hawaii, representing over 2,000 members. Seated on the left in front is Rev. Edward Marsden, a Tsimpshean Indian of Alaska, a missionary to his people, and at his side is seated Tatsujira Sawaya, field secretary for Japan. Death.—Life is existence. Death is the opposite of life, and is, therefore, non-existence. Why should men make it to mean punishing, misery, eternal torment, eternal existence in misery, and almost everything else but death. God says death; why not believe it? Life is existence in any sphere. Death is the cessation of that existence. To say that death is life in another form, transition of consciousness to another sphere, is a denial of the plainest statements of the Scriptures of truth, and a subversion of the ordinary and proper use of language.