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258 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE ,
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travelling at the rate of 192 , 000 miles a second , three years to other reach our such earth stars . are The extinct light may in arrive and after so this with star is dear , or ; my
uncle , light from him , can still reach space us ; he , though dead , yet speaketh . His previsions were correct . He did not live long
after He the died comp in perfect letion of calm the and Hecord clearness of his , , entirel now vanished y happy , , full ILife . of faith and trustHis life flowered in his death . During his
. later He regretted years his nothing life seem that ed to he be had but to a serene leave ; ri he pening was assured for death of .
what he had to expect . Around his dying bed were gathered Mr , Lawrence and , old f Mrs .
Townsend died in his , his own attached old room servan in the t of little many cottage years . , mysel . He We knew not the exact moment at which his gentle spirit
passed at his bedside . It was that during death a prayer bore him which Mr in . Lawrence softllulling offered arms up .
When we arose from prayer he was away gone , and y his body alone remained with us . He was buried by his wife in the little
churchyard of the village he loved so well . His remains . rested where he wished that thshould rest . The Rev . Mr . Lawrence
ey read cially the among servic the e over poor him , followed . Many him and ; sincere and grief mourners , if not , espe loud - ,
was deep . For he was known and loved in every cottage . The greyhaired _grandsire and the toddling wean , the stalwart him man It
was and not the onl tender for woman his charities , all had his loved ifts , all for mourned these were . the least of the y kindnesses he did , but g the ; irit in which they
were donethe sympathy , the delicacy ; , the sp tenderness which he ever showed , were the links which bound human hearts to the
, in wise which , beneficent no man sp can irit work for which . But , at he last rested , the from night his had lab come ours
and his works followed him . After the funeralMr . Lawrence ( his executor ) placed in my
hands the preceding , Record . He had often his promised life that to he write had
it for me , but I had not known during perfo I remained rmed his in promise the cott . between the death and burial .
the Every facedead day , until which it I could had age so be loved done while no more living , . I looked upon
I stood , and , gazed upon him then , when " Death The statue had moulded of a Life . into " calm completeness ,,
that As you you hav stand e deep alone ly , loved looking , the , long shadows upon the that dead move face across of one it and
seem to light the fixed features into transient motion
258 The Record Of A Vanished Life ,
258 THE RECORD OF A VANISHED LIFE ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/42/
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