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The View from a Hearse

by Joseph Tate Bayly

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Three of Joseph Bayly's seven children died at young ages. He was intimately acquainted with the pain of death and was all too familiar with what he once called this enemy's "grim violence." But he was even more intimately acquainted with the One who conquered that enemy forever. The View from a Hearse is Joe's simple, helpful meditation on death and grieving. He wrote it for those facing the death of a loved one, those still in the throes of grief, and for those preparing to die. Joe knew that peace with death doesn't come from understanding everything that happens to us, but in knowing the God who is in control of everything. He wrote this little book to show that God has not promised His children an easy death or deathbed visions of glory. What He has promised is an open door beyond.… (more)
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All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one Man dies, one Chapter is not torne out of the booke, but translated into a better language; and every Chapter must be so translated. God emploies several translators: some peeces are translated by age, some by sicknesse, some by warre, some by justice; but Gods hand is in every transation; and his hand shall binde up all our scattered leaves againe, for that Librarie where every booke shall lie open to one another.

---John Donne (1573--1631)
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,
For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

--John Donne
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To the memory
of three sons

DANNY, JOHN, and JOE
who introduced us
to death
--its tragedy, its glory
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[Foreword] Sometimes ghosts are silent, preferring to hide themselves.
[Editor's Preface] This edition of Joe Bayly's View from a Hearse is, in some ways, closer to the first edition of 1969 than the expanded version of 1973.
[Prologue] The hearse began its grievous journey many thousand years ago, as a litter made of saplings.
Each spring the road that goes north from our home in Illinois has a succession of animals that have been struck by automobiles.
[Epilogue] The hearse has come and gone.
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Three of Joseph Bayly's seven children died at young ages. He was intimately acquainted with the pain of death and was all too familiar with what he once called this enemy's "grim violence." But he was even more intimately acquainted with the One who conquered that enemy forever. The View from a Hearse is Joe's simple, helpful meditation on death and grieving. He wrote it for those facing the death of a loved one, those still in the throes of grief, and for those preparing to die. Joe knew that peace with death doesn't come from understanding everything that happens to us, but in knowing the God who is in control of everything. He wrote this little book to show that God has not promised His children an easy death or deathbed visions of glory. What He has promised is an open door beyond.

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《永恒的开始》解答有关死亡的问题,如“人死后会再活过来吗?” “如何应付莫名的悲痛?” “如何向孩子解释死亡?” 作者费约瑟,目睹三个儿子先后过世,深尝死亡的悲剧性,也构成了一死为主题的这本著作。
Three of Joseph Bayly's seven children died at young ages. He was intimately acquainted with the pain of death and was all too familiar with what he once called this enemy's "grim violence." But he was even more intimately acquainted with the One who conquered that enemy forever.

The View from a Hearse is Joe's simple, helpful meditation on death and grieving. He wrote it for those facing the death of a loved one, those still in the throes of grief, and for those preparing to die. Joe knew that peace with death doesn't come from understanding everything that happens to us, but in knowing the God who is in control of everything.

He wrote this little book to show that God has not promised His children an easy death or deathbed visions of glory. What He has promised is an open door beyond.
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