CHAPTER XIV.

CLOSING DAYS.

“Yes, the bright things which gild earth’s lowering day Still shine the brighter ere they fade away: As if, when verging on a lovelier sphere, Some portion of its radiance reached them here.” --L. EVANS.

“Life’s short enough for labour, By which the world is blest; Eternity is peaceful And long enough, for rest.” --OLD POEM.

“Life is the Christian’s in a far higher and fuller sense than it is the worldly man’s, since he enjoys it on a far higher level of blessedness, and uses it in a much nobler cause. Even death is his, since, though for a moment it triumphs over him, in the end he triumphs over it, and while he seems to yield to it, he treads it under his feet.”--BISHOP THOROLD.