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The End of Death

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 14, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 20.

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The End of Death

By Editor

ONE of the gladdest thoughts that will come into the minds of the redeemed when the conflict with sin is ended will be the thought that the hand of the reaper Death has been forever stilled—that the cutting down of loved ones has forever ceased. It gives us joy now to know that that time is soon to be. There is no heart now without its sorrow, no home without its standing menace of disruption at the cruel hand of death. This common sorrow and this common dread should bind the hearts of God’s children more closely together as we press on to that victory which means eternal triumph over this common foe of God and man.
More and more frequently are we called upon to record the deaths of our tried workers and their faithful helpers at home and in foreign lands; and as our numbers increase and this cause pushes out into the darker and more inhospitable portions of the world, we may expect to see more and more of these evidences of the reality of the conflict in which we are engaged. Sometimes it may seem to us that the miller is taking all the grain for toll, but this is only in the seeming. When the veil is lifted, it will be seen that God has carefully gathered to himself his own. While we lay away our loved ones, and while the cause relinquishes its laborers to the prison house of the grave, the key of the tomb is in the hands of our Redeemer. With that prospect we shall not lose courage or hope, but press on to victory, and beyond the victory the reunion of laborers and loved ones.
We learn through Elder J. E. Fulton, of the Australasian Union, that Pitcairn Island has just had a good camp meeting. “A camp meeting on Pitcairn Island,” he says, “means a meeting held some distance from the village, where the people erect booths every year. Our missionaries, Brother and Sister Adams, say the meeting was a success, and the people were refreshed spiritually.”