STATEMENT OF THE QUESTION AT ISSUE. 77 



■within one another, as life in death, and death in life, 

 or as rest and unrest in one another. 



There is no greater mystery in life than in death. 

 "We talk as though the riddle of life only need engage 

 us ; this is not so ; death is just as great a miracle as 

 life ; the one is two and two making five, the other is 

 five splitting into two and two. Solve either, and we 

 have solved the other ; they should be studied not apart, 

 for they are never parted, but together, and they will 

 tell more tales of one another than either will tell about 

 itself. If there is one thing which advancing knowledge 

 makes clearer than another, it is that death is swal- 

 lowed up in life, and life in death ; so that if the last 

 enemy that shall be subdued is death, then indeed is 

 our salvation nearer than what we thought, for in 

 strictness there is neither life nor death, nor thought 

 nor thing, except as figures of speech, and as the 

 approximations which strike us for the time as most 

 convenient. There is neither perfect life nor perfect 

 death, but a being ever with the Lord only, in the 

 eternal <p6pa, or going to and fro and heat and fray of 

 the universe. When we were young we thought the 

 one certain thing was that we should one day come to 

 die ; now we know the one certain thing to be that we 

 shall never wholly do so. " Non omnis moriar," says 

 Horace, and " I die daily," says St. Paul, as though 

 a life beyond the grave, and a death on this side of it, 

 were each some strange thing which happened to them 

 alone of all men; but who dies absolutely once for 

 all, and for ever at the hour that is commonly called 

 that of death, and who does not die daily and hourly? 



