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    loft * attempted to comfort him , and by -giving him money to buy another , alleviated his sorrow ; still he , had lost his own cow , and the tear continued to fall . Pursuing his jpucijey , Fenelon found the

    very cow which was rfie object of so . much affliction ; and like the good shepherd , he himself drove it back before him in a dark night to the young man ' s cottage .

    u This , ' * says the Cardinal de Maury , " is , perhaps the finest trait in Feneion ' s life . Woe to those who read it without being affected V " The virtues of

    Fene-Jon , continues the cardinal , " give his history something oi the air or romance ; but his name will never die . To this moment , the Flemminders bless his memory , and Call him the Gaud Archbishop . "

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    Many of Fenelon ' s relations were happy imitators of his virtues . The Abjbe de Fenelon may be particularly mentioned . After a length of years , uniformly devoted to religion and virtue , he retired to Paris , and spent the remainder of his life in endeavouring to procurt ; a religious and moral

    educa-$ ion , for the poor Savoyard boys , with whom , under the ancient government , Paris abounded . Allowing hiipself no more than was nece $ sary for his mere subsistence , he contrived , with the remaining part of his income , and with the

    contributions which he raised upon his friends , to accomplish this edifying work . The horrors of the Revolution forced bin } from it , and he ^ retjred % 6 tfye delightful solitude of , t ^ ' l ^ o ^ l f { Stf Valerian . He was ^ y ^ u ^ tl to his retreat , and CQnveyed f ; o the prison of the Lux-

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    embourg ; he was then in his 80 th year . When this became public , all the little Savoyard boys assembled , and went in a body to the National Assembly : they loudly petitioned the Assembly for his liberty ; and offered that any num . ber of them should be constituted

    prisoners in his stead , as hostages for his good conduct . This ,, for a time delayed his fate : hut a day was at length fixed for his execu * tion . One of the poor Savoyards , whom the abbe had instructed and

    assisted , was at that time , turnkey of the prison of the Luxembourg . Perceiving his benefactor among the victims led out to execution , he sprang forward , and in

    a state of distraction , strained him in his embiace and cried aloud . " My father : my father ! are you then going to die ! You , whose life has been an uniform act of

    goodness !** Be comforted , " the abbe said to him , * death is not an evil to him , who can no longer do good . My dear child , your sensibility at this moment comforts my heart . Farewell , my friend ! farewell , Joseph ! Think

    sometimes upon me . "—* Alas V answered the poor Savoyard , "I shall never forget you . ' The abbe ascended the fatal cart , with

    sixty-eight other victims . He exhorted them , during the whole way , to sorrow for their sins , to confide in God , and to offer up to him , with resignation , the sacrifice of their lives . Having

    arrived at the guillotine , he once more addressed them ; he exhorted them to form , with all their hearts , in an act of repentance for their sins ! all of them humbly inclined their heads ; hie pronounced over them the , words of absolution ; and continued to suggest to them

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    Anecdotes of Fenelon and his family . 541

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    ? OI .. VII . 4 A

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 541, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/9/