Post by theguvnor on Jan 6, 2023 12:58:36 GMT
Having just churned out slightly short of 20,000 words on this man for a dissertation I thought it might be pleasant to pray for his soul as he was a fellow Christian, if an eccentric one. He wrote sci-fi under the name Cordwainer Smith which is sadly little read nowadays but is truly strange and interesting stuff. He also works his Christian concerns in there, especially in the later stories. Although he never bangs you over the head with it. One of his last books published in his own life time has a dedication to his housekeeper where he ends by saying he hopes to see her in heaven as it is something they both believe in. At the time he wrote it, he was a very, very ill man.
He was also a war vet as he served in World War Two and these are his biographical details for the website run by his daughter:
www.cordwainer-smith.com/cemetery-bio-my-comments.htm
O God of spirits and of all flesh, Who hast trampled down death and overthrown the Devil, and given life to Thy world, do Thou, the same Lord, give rest to the souls of Thy departed servants in a place of brightness, a place of refreshment, a place of repose, where all sickness, sighing, and sorrow have fled away. Pardon every transgression which they have committed, whether by word or deed or thought. For Thou art a good God and lovest mankind; because there is no man who lives yet does not sin, for Thou only art without sin, Thy righteousness is to all eternity, and Thy word is truth.
For Thou are the Resurrection, the Life, and the Repose of Thy servants who have fallen asleep, O Christ our God, and unto Thee we ascribe glory, together with Thy Father, who is from everlasting, and Thine all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever unto ages of ages. Amen.
He was also a war vet as he served in World War Two and these are his biographical details for the website run by his daughter:
www.cordwainer-smith.com/cemetery-bio-my-comments.htm
O God of spirits and of all flesh, Who hast trampled down death and overthrown the Devil, and given life to Thy world, do Thou, the same Lord, give rest to the souls of Thy departed servants in a place of brightness, a place of refreshment, a place of repose, where all sickness, sighing, and sorrow have fled away. Pardon every transgression which they have committed, whether by word or deed or thought. For Thou art a good God and lovest mankind; because there is no man who lives yet does not sin, for Thou only art without sin, Thy righteousness is to all eternity, and Thy word is truth.
For Thou are the Resurrection, the Life, and the Repose of Thy servants who have fallen asleep, O Christ our God, and unto Thee we ascribe glory, together with Thy Father, who is from everlasting, and Thine all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever unto ages of ages. Amen.