452 MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON. CHAP. XI. 



CHAPTER XL 



THE STRUGGLE CLOSES : VICTORY WON. 



"So much as moments are exceeded by eternity, and the sighing of a man by the 

 joys of an angel, and a salutary frown by the light of God's countenance, a few 

 groans, by the infinite and eternal hallelujahs ; so much are the sorrows of the godly 

 to be undervalued in respect of what is deposited for them in the treasures of eter- 

 nity." 



" Translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son." 



"April 26, 3858. 



"My DEAR JEANIE, If you wish to see a lazy man, take 

 Pussy, mesmerize her, and make her clairvoyante, desire her 

 (in spirit) to go the railway station, take a ticket, enter a first- 

 class carriage, and go on, on, on, till she comes to the Bridge of 

 Allan. 



" Tell her to get out there, taking care not to leave her para- 

 sol or smelling-bottle behind her, enter the omnibus, and request 

 to be set down at Sunnylaw House. When she is there, she will 

 mysteriously tell you that an awful black dog, called Betty (in 

 reality, a very mild canine lady) guards the gate, whilst a con- 

 nexion of her own, stout and comfortable, basks in the sun, as 

 respectable cat -matrons of her years love to do. She will fur- 

 ther describe to you a room with one oriel window, looking 

 south on the bed of a fishing stream and a line of railway, which 

 occupy different heights in a valley rising into a fine sky-line 

 crowned with trees, behind which we see the sun set, and the 

 stars rise. 



" Further, after describing a faymale, something like yourself 

 in look, Pussy will signify that there is a spectacled member of 



