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himself standing, like the Pilgrim of never to be 

 forgotten story, at the foot of the Cross, and Three 

 Shining Ones coming to greet him. 



It was recovery, to some extent discovery, which 

 befell him, but there was no change of purpose, no 

 sudden intellectual or moral conversion. 



He had always cared more for Truth, for the 

 knowledge of Grod, than for anything else in the 

 world. In the years most outwardly happy he was 

 crying out in the darkness for light, with a soul 

 athirst for God, and, as was said before, he did most 

 truly re-echo St. Augustine's words, ' Fecisti nos ad 

 Te, et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat 

 in Te: 



It is difficult for anyone who has lived in closest 

 intimacy with him to speak of him in words which 

 will not to those who did not know him seem ex- 

 aggerated, nay, extravagant ; to those who knew 

 and loved him, cold, inadequate, lifeless ; for he bore 

 ' the white flower of a blameless life ' from boyhood 

 onwards, and in heart and life he was unstained, pure, 

 unselfish, unworldly in the truest sense. 



When the Shadow of Death lay on him, and the 

 dread messenger was drawing near, and he looked 

 back on his short life, he could reproach himself 

 only for what he called sins of the intellect, mental 

 arrogance, undue regard for intellectual supremacy. 



No one better understood him than the friend '^ 

 who wrote : 



When a man has lived with broad and strong 

 interest in life, neither discarding nor slighting any 

 true part of it in home, or society, or work, the 

 various aspects of his character and career are likely 

 to be many and suggestive. And so there may be 



I The Dean of Christ Church. 



