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research, may be concluded with a few words, written 

 soon after his death by Mr. Mackenzie to one of his 

 brothers with reference to the position of his grave. 

 "Lonely the spot, no doubt," he writes, " is, in a cer- 

 tain sense ; but, in another, your brother's grave is 

 surrounded by all the activities of the great Creator 

 and Father of all. Flowers will blossom around it, 

 though not planted by mortal hand ; birds will sing 

 over it, and never weary in repeating the sweet notes 

 which Nature has taught them. I have not been 

 there myself, but I have no doubt the naturalist would 

 not think your brother's grave a lonely spot ; whilst 

 to the Christian such a spot is the quiet resting-place 

 to which the body sank when the spirit was called 

 away by God the Father." 



