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could. The closing words of Dr. Hitchcock's last ser- 

 mon are the following : 



" It is one of the revelations of scripture that we are 

 to judge the angels, sitting above them on the shining 

 heights. It may well be so. Those angels are the im- 

 perial guard, doing easy duty at home. We are the 

 tenth legion, marching in from the swamps and forests 

 of the far-off frontier, scarred and battered, but vic- 

 torious over death and sin." 



