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alone. They must have looked up to
him as their only protector, in this (of late,
to them) hard world. They must
have had high hopes & an honest pride
in him. And these are taken from them now.
In afflictions of such a nature, however
heavy they may be, is it not true that
almost the first feeling that stirs the
heart of every right minded man, is
that of the goodness & love of Soul? How is
it that some griefs could be borne by men before
Christ came & spoke to us, & then died
for us? - I know not how. How distinctly
Wheaton is now standing before me - his
form, his voice, his smile! I never think
of death as something entire in itself -
Life is always with it, if not in it, to
me; & this because of our immortality -