forces, no dead laws, but always spirit and life. His head was never divorced 

 from his heart. While studying physical facts and methods, he was led, not 

 toward materialism, but toward idealism. The more he became familiar with 

 Nature, the more he looked through Nature up to the God of Nature. His 

 intelligence was so large that it did not need to drop the spiritual side of the 

 universe, in its contemplation of the material order of things, but was able 

 to hold both, at the same time, in its ample grasp. One-sided science and 

 one-sided religion may be hostile, but in his soul these two were one. He 

 saw God in Nature, as in history and in life. His religion was rational, and 

 his science was religious. What a happy life has his been ! You, his fellow- 

 workers during long years, in this University, who have seen his manner of 

 living ; you, his companions in science, who have taken sweet counsel with 

 him on those high themes, and walked in company with him to that House of 

 God which men call Nature; we, his friends of many. years, classmates, 

 brothers, none of us to-day, can shed bitter tears for him who 



" Having run 



The round of man's appointed years, at last, 

 Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, 

 Serenely to his quiet rest has passed." 



We are never nearer immortality than in the presence of such a death as this. 

 We do not feel, we cannot imagine, this to be the end. That marvellous 

 power which holds suns and atoms equally in its grasp ; that creative exu- 

 berance which is yet so conservative that it gathers up every fragment so that 

 nothing be lost, this power cannot allow the personal soul, which he has 

 brought up to such a height of development, to be dissipated anew into empti- 

 ness. The mind which has been led by God so far, cannot stop abruptly here. 

 If no little bird, on its rocking nest among the boughs, is forgotten by God, we 

 may trust ourselves and those we love to that providence which holds us all 

 in the hollow of its hand. It were almost an absurdity in creation, for such 

 carefully developed souls, the ripe fruit of long ages of preparation, to come 

 to an end with the decay of their earthly organization. The Creator has 

 hung an impenetrable veil between this world and the next, shutting us out 

 from precise knowledge of the great beyond, and so confining us to what we 

 can know and do here. If we saw more of the future, perhaps we should 

 tire too soon of the present. But some things we may believe. Since the 

 Father sends death to all his children, just as he sends them life ; as he sends 

 death to the wise and weak, to the saint and the criminal, to the believer and 



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