312 MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



if I should now be called, as he was, to go before the light ot 

 another day should shine. I involuntarily pictured him as also 

 waking up suddenly at midnight, and similar thoughts of home 

 and love, and of those that had gone before, coming to him, and 

 with them memory of the hardships he had passed through and 

 of those that seemed before him ere he could realise an inde- 

 pendence ; also of the many temptations that surrounded him 

 while mixed up with such a loose society as that of a gold colony. 

 I could then readily fancy the buoyant spirit so subdued as to 

 be brought to feel the release a happy one, and as if his only 

 trouble on that night may have had reference to his father and 

 sisters and mother. 



It seems no doubt as if it were a hard matter to be called on 

 to die at so great a distance from all you love, and at so short a 

 notice ; but I believe (from what I have myself felt more than 

 once) that all those circumstances lose their terror and bitter- 

 ness, when contrasted with the prospect which the near approach 

 of death awakens in the trustful spirit. For myself, I could 

 have been well contented to have passed away last night, so 

 firm was my reliance on Him whose presence seemed to be with 

 me. Australia is as near the gate of Heaven as any other place. 

 Therefore it does not become us to repine as those that have no 

 hope, or to murmur because it has pleased a most merciful 

 Father to hide his doings from us. His ways are not our ways, 

 nor his thoughts our thoughts. Farewell. 



The foreshadowed illness proved an attack of fever, under 

 which Dr. Harvey was prostrated soon after sailing from Sydney, 

 the effects of which continued until his arrival at Valparaiso. 

 Here, with the same providential care which had attended him 

 through all his wanderings, he met with friends in Dr. and Mrs. 

 Ancram, and Mr. and Mrs. Alison, who administered to his 

 recovery with all the attentions that the utmost kindness could 

 bestow. To the last-mentioned lady he addressed one of his 

 earliest letters after his return to Ireland. 



