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" It is not sad that he should have died out there. 

 Perhaps it was the thing, much as he yearned for home, 

 that was the fitting end for him. He may have felt it 

 so himself. 



"But would that he could have completed that which 

 he offered his life to God to do ! 



" If God took him, however, it was that his life was 

 completed, in God's sight ; his work finished, the most 

 glorious work of our generation. 



" He has opened those countries for God to enter in. 

 He struck the first blow to abolish a hideous slave-trade. 



" He, like Stephen, was the first martyr. 



He climbed the steep ascent of heaven, 



Through peril, toil, and pain ; 

 God ! to us may grace be given 



To follow in his train ! 



" To us it is very dreary, not to have seen him again, 

 that he should have had none of us by him at the last ; 

 no last word or message. 



" I feel this with regard to my dear father, and one 

 who was more than mother to me, Mrs. Bracebridge, 

 who went with me to the Crimean war, both of whom 

 were taken from me last month. 



" How much more must we feel it, with regard to our 

 great discoverer and hero, dying so far off ! 



" But does he regret it ? How much he must know 

 now ! how much he must have enjoyed ! 



" Though how much we would give to know his 

 thoughts, alone with God, during the latter davs of his 

 life. 



" May we not say, with old Baxter (something altered 

 from that verse) ? — 



My knowledge of that life is small, 



The eye of faith is dim ; 

 But 'tis enough that Christ knows all, 



And he will be with Him. 



