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Show 114 Til£ J,l8t:JtTY DEI,I .. llhbster. nY QEOROE F. TALliQT, TuEnE is no scntl.m cn ~ les.s philosophical than that quoted . brc I..~atin, over almost every Ill som ' ' . N,'l de mortuis nisi bonum. fresh-sodded grave . ~ . . . l t this charity be mvokcd; For tho hVlng always c . fol· the dead, they require tt no longer. -as . 'th even or uneven tbreMl, spirul While Lachcsts, wt h life who can know what out the events of uman ' h 11 et be to be done, that B a crowning act may y b change the aspect of the whole. Sc~uccd th:t great temptations, buf iie ted by secret ,cars h rl the fortitude of tho ca passion or of ngc, the sometimes assault through the infirmities of WEDSTim. 115 captive soul l1as gone under the clouds of sin, it may be, fol" years,- a mystery to the worlll, an atlliction to tho good, a trium1Jh to fiends and bad men. But wait hopefully, for C\•cn on tho very barriers of death, a bitOOr repentance may retrieve all, and the light of the spirit, setting like the clear sun from an overcast sky, may tinge the lifted clouds of 8in with hues of beauty. The whole anterior lifo may have been a conflict with adverso circumstances, or a false appearance, tho true scollO and purpose of which wns to be revealed in the great Sllcrifico for right, the noble avowal for truth yet to be mado. Who would have recognized the martyr-courage of tho dreamy and ideal Sir 'l'homas More, had he not been called to face tho martyr's doom ? Who would not have believed, that tho constancy of Cranmer would always yield to his physical fears, but for tho tremendous energy of its recoil ? Had our American Clay, upon his conspicuous deathbed, perhaps with weak consciousness self-chosen |