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much of life, so [?];
how can we who knew hum express
out gratitude for each hour of his
sweet presence!

The record of the good Bishop's
life is one of conscientious faithful-
ness, but it is only of the closing
scnes that we now speak; they were
in beautiful accordance with that
life, all meekness and peace to the
end. As he replied on one occasion
to a friend who had wondered how
he had borne his many sorrows: "I
have just bent like a reed and let
them pass over me;" so he seemed
to live every day. Always serene,
always with a quiet smile upon his
face, the gentle calmness of which
shed benediction on all about him.
Saintly is the word which character-
ized the atmosphere continually sur-
rounding him and saintly the influ-
ence of his words and work.

A touching and prophetic incident
occured at "St. Paul's-on-the-moun-
tain,' just one month before his
death, when he sat for a time lighted
up with an almost supernatural glory
in the radiance of color from the
stained glass in the chancel. There
uppon his silvered head lay the em-
blem of the cross and crown in golden
light which streamed through the

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