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we dressed and carried him downstairs, when a long, long rest was needed before he could go farther. During this interval the doctor arrived, and on feeling his pulse forbade the attempt. He enjoined perfect quiet and constant nourishment, and altered the diet previously prescribed. This change produced beneficial results on that day, and the day following. But on Wednesday his vital powers were rapidly failing, and when the doctor arrived himself greatly shocked-he pronounced him to be sinking. He inquired if anything had occurred to worry or distress him, and being assured that everything of an agitating nature had been kept from him since the beginning of his illness, he said then it was the result of an over-strained heart; there was no disease, simply over-tension of the vital powers.

The doctor told us we must rouse him, for he was fast becoming unconscious. We did so, and he took some oysters, and seemed as grateful as ever for each mark of attention, though the power of expressing his wishes, when he made the effort, was gone. Great restlessness, and a constant desire for change of posture came on, though at times he lay motionless. We were constantly chafing his cold hands and feet, while fanning him to produce "more air." Still, while pleading the promises, I could not but believe that he would yet be given back in answer to prayer.

And so the day wore away till 8 p.m., when-just as his curate, Mr. Watts, was concluding the Wednesday evening service, and dismissing the people to whom he had so long and so faithfully ministered, and whom he never ceased to

remember in prayer-his ransomed spirit took its flight.

His much attached Scripture reader had watched all day beside his bed, and now had the high privilege of witnessing his triumphant departure. All day he had lain with his eyes for the most part closed, when suddenly opening them wide, we saw them filled with a flood of light, and suffused with the rich, hazel colouring of his earlier years, as he gazed steadily upwards; then turning on me a last fond look of tenderest love-the unvarying love which a union of eight and thirty years had served only to increase and intensify—and as if trying to direct attention to the glories he evidently saw, once again he looked up to heaven, and in another moment

"His soul, undrest from her mortal vest,

Had stepped in her car of heavenly fire;

And proved how bright were the realms of light, Bursting at once upon the sight."

Was it not enough to make one in love with death? The longing desire of his stedfast soul, to see the King in His glory, was now fully satisfied; the crown

was won!

Dear friend, can you wonder if I say that I would not recall him, though the ever-increasing void who can fathom? Where a perfect union of heart with heart has existed, where there has been a constant blending of mind with mind, the wrench, who can tell? Yet even for this, Jesus is all-sufficient. I can rest on the promise, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." Only ask for me that when the temptation comes, in overpowering force, to say, like Martha and Mary, "Lord, if Thou hadst been here

if this had been done, or that left undone, -my husband had not died,"-ask for me that I may look above all second causes, and recognise only as the moving cause of his removal, the Master's prayer, "Father, I will that he whom Thou hast given Me may be with Me where I am, that he may behold My glory."

The halo which encircled his departure recalled a remarkable dream, which my beloved husband had had a few months previously. He thought he saw a form ascending to heaven, and he said the vision he then had of heaven's brightness was such as he had never conceived possible. It so impressed me when he related it, that I wrote it down, feeling sure that we should find it had reference to some loved one being taken to glory. He thought it might be sent to prepare him for the removal of his sister, fifteen

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