104 A Walk from 



brilliant existence of the hereafter, ten thousand sections 

 of its corporeity; portions of its surface, perhaps, as 

 substantial as the human forms that the souls of men 

 shall wear in another world. These are they that shall 

 shine as the stars, when those beaming so brilliantly in 

 our eyes around the shrines of mere intellect and 

 genius, shall have " paled their ineffectual fires " before 

 the eflux of diviner light. Let him, then, of thoughtful 

 and attentive faculties think on these great and holy 

 possibilities, when he treads within the pale of a good 

 man's life, whose labors for human happiness " follow 

 him" according to divine promise; not out of the 

 world, not down into the grave with his resting body, 

 but out among living generations, breathing upon them 

 and through them a blessed and everlasting influence. 

 Let him tread that disk of light reverentially, for it 

 is the holiest place on the earth's surface outside the 

 immediate circumference of Calvary. 



This is Babraham ; and here lived Jonas Webb ; a 

 good man and true, whose influence and usefulness had 

 a broader circumference than the widest empire in the 

 world. A Frenchman has written the fullest history of 

 both, and an American here offers reverentially a tribute 

 to his worth. The light of his life was a soft and gentle 

 illumination on its earth-side ; the lustre of the other 

 was revealed only by partial glimpses to those who 



