THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION, 27 



" Twilight and evening bell, 

 And after that the dark, 

 And may there be no sadness of farewell 

 When I embark. 



" For tho' from out this bourne of time and place 

 The flood may bear me far, 

 I hope to see my Pilot face to face 

 When I have crossed the bar." 



And here is another noble yet clearer evangel : 



" Life is real, life is earnest. 



And the grave is not its goal ; 

 Dust thou art, to dust returnest, 

 Was iiot spoken of the soul." 



And yet the noblest of all follows : — I see a manacled 

 prisoner in the Mamertine dungeon — a mail-clad soldier of the 

 empire watches him. I see his noble Hebrew face sicklied o'er 

 with the pallor of disease and captivity, and I see too the radi- 

 ance of the heavenly glory now hovering near. Hear his 

 triumphant death-chant, his glorious battle-song swelling with 

 a great chorus of many such as he through the centuries since 

 then — " I have fought a good fight ; I have finished my course ; 

 I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a 

 crown of righteousness which the Lord, the only righteous 

 Judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto 

 all them that love His appearing," 



But mayhap I judge wrongly, I may not understand the 

 epitaph, or the script on his tomb may belie the man. From a 

 scientific point of view it certainly is not evolution, for evolution, 

 is not " endless," but grows from more to more. Can it be that 

 after all it was an eclipse of faith or an echo of that great soul 

 cry that went forth centuries ago, " Though He slay me, yet 

 will I trust in Him ? " To read the book and volume of the 

 sky more correctly and to see therein and on every page of it 

 emblazoned the name of the Creator, yea, every letter of it a 

 glistering sun is the lesson for every astronomer, whether ama- 

 teur or professional, to learn. Lelande impiously said : " I 

 have swept the heavens and searched the universe and found 



