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And to quote again from William Mount- 

 ford : 



&quot;In God the fountains rise and the rivers run 

 and the oceans ebb and flow ; and shall not my 

 spirit continue to be a spirit in him ? But in 

 death there is the loss of the body ; and in health, 

 is there not a losing of the body and a regaining 

 of other flesh every minute ? And then has a 

 river the same water running in it any two hours 

 together ? A fountain is a fountain, in God, 

 for a hundred, a thousand, and many thousand 

 years ; and I will not fear but my soul shall be a 

 soul in him for ages of ages.&quot; 



In Mountford s beautiful book, which he called 

 &quot; Euthanasy,&quot; Aubin says : 



&quot; In the woods I seldom was long before I was 

 possessed by a spirit, like what the Greeks imag 

 ined was Pan. A fearful pleasure ! At first it 

 seemed as though the low wind whispered me ; 

 and then, as though it waited about me and curled 

 about my face. If a branch waved, it was toward 

 me, and if a leaf fluttered, so did my heart. Then 

 I would sit down and wonder in awe and joy and 

 tears. And the awe in my spirit would deepen, 

 and the joy, too, and my tears would fall faster, 

 till I felt as the child Samuel may have done in 

 the temple, while waiting for the Lord to speak. 

 And there was speech from God to me at those 



