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HIS FUNERAL, 



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It was met by Dean Bond and other clergymen at St. George's 

 Church, which was draped with mourning and rilled with 

 those who grieved for their loss : the organist played the " Dead 

 March in Saul," which Philip was so fond of, and the tune of 

 " Lead, kindly light." The body was followed by about a hun- 

 dred persons of all ranks in life, and of various churches, and 

 by his scholars. It was laid in the Mount Royal Cemetery, which 

 had especially attracted him by its beauty (see pp. 188, 261). 

 The ground was purchased and given to his widow by his 

 attached friend Dr. Dawson : and a marble cross is now placed 

 there, which bears, as he would have wished, only his name 

 and the dates of birth and death : and "Erected in affectionate 

 remembrance by some of his former pupils." * 



The widow's heart was comforted by the utmost affection 

 and kindness. Dr. Campbell refused any fee for his loving 

 and devoted attendance : and there were many instances which 

 showed how Philip was remembered as one who freely gave, 

 and whose memory awakened a similar disinterestedness. It 

 would have cheered him had he known, as fully as it has since 

 been revealed, how parents ascribed to him much of the good 

 that had taken root in their sons' hearts : and how some of 



flowers (without a stone) — a white rose, a pink, and some snowdrops or 

 some lilies of the valley. Let none of my family come from a distance. 

 Let no favourable accounts of character appear in any papers or periodicals. 

 . . . Let the contents of this paper be made known wherever it may do 

 good." 



He then said that if his body could be made serviceable to the ends of 

 science, it might be dissected. In his last will he wrote : " I direct my 

 body to be given for dissection to some Medical School. . . . Care to be 

 taken that no sermon be preached, or eulogy appear in the papers." 

 These directions were not known to those who arranged for his funeral ; 

 which, however, accorded with his desire (1843) : — "Let all be done in 

 simplicity, in peace, in hopefulness, and in trust." 



* The monument, erected on a granite base, resembles that of his 

 mother at Bristol, but is on a larger scale (nine feet in height). His widow 

 wrote in 1878, when she first visited the spot after the winter (during 

 which the delicate shrubs are taken into the greenhouses attached to this 

 most wonderfully lovely place) : "The head gardener saw me. I told 

 him what I had come for ; but I supposed he did not know me. He said, 

 * Oh yes, Mrs. Carpenter, I know you : and I loved the Doctor, and I will 

 take care of the place ; but not for pay. What beautiful prayers he made, 

 and what temperance speeches !' Then he gave orders to his men," and 

 the bed was prepared, and her flowers planted. 



