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" The many deaths among relatives and friends have 

 made us very grave. I am soberly cheerful among strangers, 

 and try to live day by day as a dying man ; and though it 

 is a most imperfect copy of the life of my Lord and Master, 

 I know that I love Him more than ever I did, and I hope 

 to love and imitate Him better and better." The prepared- 

 ness for death, of which these words give evidence, was 

 about to be put to a searching test. After a lecture at the 

 School of Arts one evening in the beginning of February, 

 he lay down to rest, but was aroused by the rupture of a 

 blood-vessel, and the loss of a considerable quantity of 

 blood. His indomitable spirit showed itself in his coming 

 down next morning as usual to breakfast, and actually lec- 

 turing twice that day, though his ghastly appearance showed 

 that he was little fit for such exertion. When the weary 

 day was over, and he was again left for the night, hemorr- 

 hage returned a second time, and consciousness nearly 

 failed him. He was unable to summon assistance, and all 

 that lonely night his bed seemed surrounded by the spirits 

 of those of the family gone before. Some words of a psalm 

 which he had read just before lying down kept a^ place in 

 his mind through all its waverings : " I shall not die, but 

 live, and declare the works of the Lord." ... ... 



Medical aid was obtained next day, and so probable was 

 the return of the hemorrhage deemed, that on the third 

 night there was little hope that he would see the dawn. It 

 passed safely over, however, and he gradually regained 

 strength in a way that made the words of the psalm seem 

 prophetic. At first the hemorrhage was supposed to pro- 

 ceed from the lungs, but ultimately it was ascertained to be 

 from the stomach, resulting, in fact, as was discovered two 



