362 MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON. CHAP. XI. 



Occasionally an inquiry was made as to the hour, with 

 some reference to this " getting to rest." About six o'clock 

 the 23d Psalm was read at his request, and then some 

 detached verses, " When thou passest through the waters, 

 I will be with thee : and through the rivers, they shall not 

 overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou 

 shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon 

 thee, for I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel 

 thy Saviour." 



" Fear thou not, for I am with thee : be not dismayed, 

 for I am thy God : I will strengthen thee ; yea, I will help 

 thee ; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my 

 righteousness." 



" Let not your heart be troubled : ye believe in God, 

 believe also in me. 



" In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were 

 not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place 

 for you. 



"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come 

 again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there 

 ye may be also." 



" To him that overcometh, will I give to eat of the hidden 

 manna ; and I will give him a white stone, and in the stone 

 a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that 

 receiveth it." 



" To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in 

 my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with 

 my Father in his throne." 



" Read me something secular," he then said, " I don't 

 wish to go to sleep yet." Possibly the excessive tremulous- 

 ness of voice in reading such heart-stirring words, suggested 

 this change ; for no act of self-denial was too great for him. 

 Standing near the gas, for the light was kept low, his sister 



