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earthly symbols there are of the ' Kesurrection and the Life/ 

 Alick is anxious to have a stone raised over his and Catherine's 

 grave. He got a design of an obelisk, with an urn on the top, 

 which I strongly objected to, and recommended in its place a 

 cross, like those which fill the German churchyards. He was 

 afraid of being suspected of Puseyism, but I smile at that. A 

 cross is a precious Protestant symbol, apart from the follies of 

 Puseyite or Papist. It is in our hearts, however, that his 

 memory must be preserved, and assuredly it will be. 



" How much I miss, and shall miss him, I have scarcely dared 

 to think. . . . When I recall his sensitive spirit, however, and 

 how little relish he had for even the most engrossing subjects of 

 this earth, I feel how justly we can say of him, that he was 

 'taken away from the evil to come.'" And six years later 

 he says, " If I often feel that a fine ethereal genius like his 

 would have done much to exalt and refine my nature, had we 

 lived together, yet life was to him such a bitter, dreary wil- 

 derness, that I could not wish him back, whatever might be the 

 gain to me. To die and be with Christ, was for him, above 

 all my lost ones, far better than any career of earthly life could 

 have been." 



The purpose of erecting a cross on the grave was carried out, 

 and on it may be seen the names of brother and sister, dying at 

 the same age (twenty-one), in the same month (with an interval 

 of five years), and of the same disease. It was the Kussells' 

 wish to lie in death with those whose life they shared ; and as 

 three of them are now at rest there, it may be said of both fami- 

 lies, " The greater part are fallen asleep." 



In the spring of 1845 George writes to an absent sister : 

 " This time a year ago our dear James entered into his rest, and 

 all this day our minds have been full of him. All the more, 

 perhaps, that Dr. Wardlaw preached to us this morning, and 

 by many things brought before us the image of him who is 

 now in the presence of God. Mary and I are going, to visit 

 his tomb, and you in spirit will be with us beside it, in the 

 quiet corner of the churchyard where it stands. May God 

 give to all of us, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 

 a restoration in His good time to our dear cousin in heaven ! 



