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still fresh amongst this people; whose memory is enshirned in their hearts; he too, the loving and the loved Tomas, was laid in the dust. These were the tribulations, falling at the intervals like blows of a hammer, which wrought out, link by link, that golden chain of patience, and experience, and hope, in that great heart, until it was tender and gentle as a ministering angel's towards all the children of sorrow.
Cut off from him in his later bereavements and trails, we know only from the testimony of those whose high privilege is was to be near him, the latest graces which the trial unmasked as he wat passing under the rod appointed for the sons of God. "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth ever son whom He receiveth."
But with him the discipline of trail-- without which there can be no perfecting of Christian character--without which there can be no companionship with Christ, no brotherhood with the Son of the Highest--without which there can be no adoption to the title and the hertiage of the Sons of God--with him this holy, blessed discipline of trial has served the appointed purpose, and is over. His conflicts are ended. "The rough toil, the weary way, the heat and cold are past; the tempest no more breaks over his head, and the rude wind is still."
HE IS AT REST
Long may the memory of his hold example remain, like the foot-prints in the sand, to guide our footsteps through this dangerous, desert world!
"**** I have read Of holy men, in Christ who fell asleep, For whom no bitter tears of woe were shed; I could not weep.
And thou thyself art one, O man loves, and truth without alloy! The Master calleth; and, thy work well done, Enter the joy."
And while "we bless God's Holy Name for all His servants departed this life in His faith and fear," oh, let us "beseech Him to give us grace so to follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of His Heavenly Kingdom."
Grant this, O Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our on Mediat and Redeemer. Amen

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