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the first and last pages of his book, and it was this 

 reliance on divine support which upheld his equani- 

 mity during long years of trying exile. It will be 

 consolatory to remember that he survived these 

 hardships, so nobly borne, when he was considerably 

 beyond the prime of life, for a period of over another 

 quarter of a century — in a foreign country, certainly, 

 but at all events, during his old age, in security, 

 comfort, and peace. 



