RISEN BY PERSEVERANCE. 



His will had just been completed seven days before he was 

 struck down. By a codicil to the will, his interest in All the 

 Year Round was left to his acting editor and eldest son, with 

 other private instructions for their guidance in the conduct of 

 the journal. 



The funeral sermon was preached by Dean Stanley, on 

 Sunday, the 19th June. Amongst the unnoted thousands 

 present were Thomas Carlyle and Alfred Tennyson. The 

 text of the day was the verses m the 15th and i6th chapters of 

 Luke — the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. In the 

 course of his sermon the Dean remarked : — 



' It is said to have been the distinguishing glory of a famous 

 Spanish saint that she was the advocate of the absent. That 

 is precisely the advocacy of this divine parable, and of those 

 modern parables which most represent its spirit — the advo- 

 cacy, namely, of the poor, the absent, the . neglected, of the 

 weaker side, whom, not seeing, we are tempted to forget. It 

 was the part of him whom we have lost to make the ric?i man, 

 faring sumptuously every day, not fail to see the presence of 

 the poor man at his gate. The suftering inmates of our 

 workhouses ; the neglected children in the dens and caves of 

 this great city ; the starved ill-used boys in remote schools, far 

 from the observation of men, — these all felt a new ray of 

 sunshine poured into their dark prisons, and a new interest 

 awakened in their forlorn and desolate lot, because an unknown 

 friend had pleaded their cause with a voice that rang through 

 the palaces of the great as well as through the cottages of the 

 poor. In his pages, with gaunt figures and hollow voices, they 

 were made to stand and speak before those who had before 

 hardly dreamed of their existence. But was it mere com- 

 passion which this created ? The same master hand which 



