At the word, it winks, Rallies, relapses, dwindles, deathward sinks.
Athenai's harlotry takes laughing care Their patron miss no pipings, late she loved, But deathward tread at least the kordax-step.
IV For deathward now lies winter's way Down the green vestibule of years That each year brightens day by day With flower and shower till hope scarce fears And fear grows wholly hope of May.
The nineteenth wave of the ages rolls Now deathward since thy death and birth.
For the spent night aches into day When the kings shall slay not or pray, And the high-priest, accursed and anointed, Sickens to deathward with fear.
I called them last Sunday morning from the pulpit the deathward and the lifeward respectively.
These two tendencies we may describe as the deathward and the lifeward respectively.
Yet--curious inversion of earlier experience--the deathwardtendency results in death to itself in the spiritual region, and the lifeward tendency results in life to him who gives life.
The deathward tendency is what I may call the self-ward tendency in the upward struggle of all organic forms, that is, one organism only exists at the expense of other organisms.
The words are not very satisfactory because the deathward tendency masquerades as the lifeward tendency, and the lifeward tendency, before fruition, looks like the deathward one.
Apply that explanation or definition of sin to what you know about life, and you will soon see when a man is facing the deathward road, and how differently he acts when he is choosing the lifeward road.
The terms are not very satisfactory, because the deathwardtendency usually masquerades as the lifeward, and the lifeward often looks like the deathward.
What is lifeward for him may be deathward for them; he is willing that it should be so--that is the sin.
We have briefly examined the two tendencies of which I have spoken; have you realised that in the things of the spirit the deathward tendency is what we call sin?
Now, when we have brought the two together, you see the essential distinction between working for self and its deathward look, and working for all with its lifeward gaze.
The former tendency is what I call the deathward--deathward for all else but itself; and the Christ is the lifeward, life for all else but itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deathward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
