Former Bishop of Barbados Rufus Brome was among the hundreds of mourners who turned out today to view the body of the late Prime Minister David Thompson which was lying in state at the St John’s Parish Church.
Brome paid his last respects to Thompson who died on October 23 at his private residence in Mapps, St Philip.
Brome, in an earlier tribute, said these words:
“The radiant morn hath passed away and spent too soon its glorious store.”
The words of this familiar evening hymn come readily to mind as we mourn the untimely death our Prime Minister, the Honourable David Thompson.
All of us know from personal experience that life is a strange and inexplicable mixture of pain and suffering, joy and happiness, evil and good, despair and hope. No one is exempt from the hours of darkness, neither is anyone denied the warmth of sunlit days.
But the temptation of this hour is to call upon our own rational resources to explain to our satisfaction the reasons of how and why this should happen at this time. It seems so unfair from our human perspective. From the beginning of time human beings have been wrestling with the problem of suffering and death. For the unbeliever such sudden or unexpected death is a clear sign that a loving and caring God does not exist. But it is the believer whose faith is put to the test.
