488 MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON. CHAP. XI. 



" In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were not so, 

 I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 



" And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again 

 and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be 

 also." 



" To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden 

 manna ; and I will give him a white stone, and in the stone a 

 new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that 

 receiveth it." 



" To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my 

 throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my 

 Father in his throne." 



" Eead me something secular," he then said, " I don't wish to 

 go to sleep yet." Possibly the excessive tremulousness of voice 

 in reading such heart-stirring words, suggested this change ; for 

 no act of self- denial was too great for him. Standing near the 

 gas, for the light was kept low, his sister spent the next three 

 hours in continuous reading, picking out from various journals 

 lying around, papers interesting but not exciting. One, it is 

 remembered, was on Gems, another on the Scilly Isles, and 

 occasional observations showed he was listening with perfect 

 comprehension. His mother entering the room while he was 

 alone, for a few minutes, saw him evidently engaged in prayer, 

 and quietly withdrew. 



Dr. Cairns arrived at nine o'clock, and went to him almost 

 immediately. Though unaware that a summons had been sent, 

 he showed no surprise at the presence of this dearly -loved 

 friend. " I found him very low," Dr. Cairns says, " and to my 

 eye long familiar with death it was only too visible in his 

 face. He was quite conscious, though he could speak but little. 

 He asked me to pray, which I did, and he fervently assented, 

 saying, ' I am in the hands of a good and kind Eedeemer ; I 

 rejoice in that every way ;' and in answer to my query whether 

 he had peace, replied ' Yes,' with his usual sweet smile, sweeter 

 than ever on the pallid face of death. On leaving the room, he 

 said, ' Come as often and stay as long as you please.' " 



His kind friend Dr. Duncan once more visited him, and when 

 he left, the oft-expressed wish for "rest" was repeated. Dr. 



