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Perhaps no more striking illustration than his history 
affords could be found of the truth that the path of duty is 
the path of happiness. His life was eminently a happy one, 
and his, indeed, was that “peace of mind which passeth un- 
derstanding.” Though devoted from his youth to the mili- 
tary service of his country, and doomed to the vicissitudes 
of a soldier’s lot, he was permitted to a greater degree than 
most men to enjoy the blessings of the domestic circle. 
There, indeed, he sat enthroned, the idol of a family of 
whose supreme affection and immeasurable devotion he was 
the object. . Nor dare we call those blows by which a Heav- 
enly Father reminds us that this world is not our “abiding 
place,” and teaches us to look beyond to “an house not made 
with hands, eternal in the heavens,” as sources of unhappl- 
ness to him who receives them as from the hand of One 
“who chasteneth whom he loveth.” One by one he lived 
to see all his three sons, two of his four daughters, and 
finally the companion of the joys and sorrows of so many 
years, precede him to the grave. 
Beautiful beyond all else that earth presents is that con- 
Jugal companionship, so touchingly depicted by Burns, which, 
beginning i in youth, is permitted to continue unbroken till 
the Psalmist’s period of life is overpassed. During the later® 
years of their lives, Mrs. Totten, no longer bound to the do- 
mestic hearth by the cares of a growing family, became truly 
an inseparable companion. Never, when it was at all prac- 
ticable to have her with him, did he ride or walk, or make @ 
journey, or perform one of his periodical tours of inspection, — 
Without her companionship ; nor could one see them together 
without feeling that they presented a model of whatever is 
amiable and lovely in the conjugal state. If he was to her the 
embodiment of all that is most worthy of respect and love in 
tan, not less marked was his deference to her. In her own 
