CHAPTER VIII. 



AFTERWARDS. 



The death chamber was filled with flowers, the tokens of love 

 from many friends : and flowers were strewn upon the coffin.* 



* Some time after Philip's death there was found a paper of "Direc- 

 tions for my Funeral, November 4, 1843," which he read over and approved 

 on his birthdays in 1848-49-50. He made his protest against the great 

 evils of conducting funerals according to the present customs. Among 

 other directions he says, "Let the coffin be the plainest possible, such as 

 very poor people would use. Let there be no handsome palls or other 

 mock finery. Let no mourning of any kind be given away : I should 

 prefer that none be worn. ... If anything, let flowers be worn, and 

 strewed on the coffin ; and let there be signs of gladness. Let a hymn be 

 sung at the grave. Let no intoxicating drinks be used on any account 

 whatever. . . . Let the grave be simple : there need not be a new one set 

 apart for me. I care not whom I lie with ; we are all brothers. If wished, 

 let my nrme and dates, without titles and without character, be engraved 

 on a stone, with a verse of a hymn or Scripture : but not one which shows 

 praise to any, but God. I should prefer a mound of earth with some 



