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daily drawing nearer the stream that cannot be 

 avoided. 



Though thus slowly losing strength, nothing 

 would have induced him to give up his duty as 

 long as he could possibly do it with any degree 

 of satisfaction. 



Even after one or two alarming seizures of faint- 

 ness, he would not consent to forsake his usual 

 work. His recuperative power after these attacks 

 was remarkable ; nothing robbed him of his happi- 

 ness in doing work connected with his calling in 

 life, and his cheerfulness and contentedness never 

 failed him, and he used to say he never felt old. 



It was not until the autumn of 1892 that he 

 obtained permanent help in his clerical duties ; and 

 even then he did not abstain from doing his share 

 of work to the utmost of his strength, but would 

 still visit constantly among his parishioners, and 

 give general instructions as to what should be 

 done. His birds were as punctually fed, morning 

 by morning, as ever, upon the table he had pro- 

 vided for them in front of his study window ; his 

 letters continued to be answered as promptly as 

 in former years ; his interest in all that went on 

 around him was as keen as of old. 



One of the last publications that came from his 

 pen was a series of small papers entitled " Politics 

 for the People ; " these were completed towards 

 the end of this year, and were written in his old 

 trenchant, half-serious, half-humorous style, which 

 those who had read other similar productions of 



