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always placing his work as a minister of the Church 

 before his work as a naturalist ; seeking first the 

 kingdom of God and His righteousness, and finding 

 that all other things were added unto him. Though 

 he had lived beyond the allotted fourscore years, 

 he continued until very lately to perform his own 

 clerical duty, and I remember his saying to me 

 that although he found it difficult of late to write 

 altogether new sermons, he tried to put more of 

 Christ into the old ones. And throughout his 

 numerous volumes there is at once " such a hearty 

 enjoyment of Nature and such a devout recognition 

 of the God of Nature, that, while the mind is ele- 

 vated, the heart is warmed in the contemplation of 

 the wonderful works of the Almighty." 



No wonder, then, that Mr. Morris was a cheerful 

 man, always looking at the bright side of things, 

 hoping the best, and trying to bring it about by 

 word and example. 



But life, though very real and interesting to him 

 and full of activities, was always passed under the 

 shadow of eternity ; the feeling of our text was ever 

 present to him " I die daily." He realised the cer- 

 tainty of death, and that gave seriousness to life and 

 tranquillity to his closing days. He had no fear. 

 He left himself, as he explained it, in God's hands. 

 " I am in God's hands," he said, and so his end was 

 peace. 



