396 ILLNESS. [1895. 



Biverhead for Dr Bury, he had rallied so far as with 

 help to be able to walk upstairs, declining any extra 

 assistance. It proved the beginning of a last illness, 

 when during eight long months he suffered no pain, 

 but lay in a state of extreme bodily weakness. So 

 long as he had strength to listen he liked to have the 

 current news read regularly every morning, and later 

 in the day he again listened to reading. 



As Dr Bury expressed a wish for a second opinion, 

 Sir W. Broadbent joined him in consultation and 

 approved of all the treatment : he held out hope, 

 which was clung to at the time, but on looking back 

 it is evident that the physician's opinion was a quali- 

 fied one. 



Soon after this there were anxious fluctuations in 

 the condition of the invalid, which he clearly realised. 

 He expressed a wish to receive the Holy Communion, 

 which was administered to him by Mr Bullen, whose 

 attachment to him was as that of a son. Owing to 

 feebleness of the heart he had been forbidden to sit 

 up ; therefore, when seeing the frail form struggle into 

 a strange crouching posture, his wife whispered, " You 

 are in a painful position?" "It is more penitent," 

 was the answer. The solemnity of the scene cannot 

 be told in words. 



Rev. E. Ashington Bullen to G. A. Prestwich. 



SHOREHAM VICARAGE, 2,9th Dec. 1895. 



DEAR MRS PRESTWICH, I sincerely trust that my dear 

 master did not suffer from the intense strain of yesterday 

 afternoon. It was a great privilege to be with you both, and it 

 will abide with me as long as I live. I have always felt very 

 near the dear professor, now I feel nearer than ever. I would 

 that some of those proud of their spiritual and intellectual at- 



