Reflections on Mortality

Flanders Nickels, a man with a dog, thinks himself happy with Chartres, his pet Saluki.  But suddenly he comes to understand his own mortality.  And, pondering death to come someday, he loses his happiness.  Along comes a China doll of a girl, a pretty Oriental bride. Her name is Xiao Xiu Xiong, and she is a born-again Christian.  She needs to give him hope in Christ.  And he needs to become a believer like herself so that death will not be his end.

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