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 perfect self-surrender. He had dedicated his all to his Maker. He would now rise with a glorified and better body for service of his Maker. But it required men like Mr. Doke not to mourn. For him (the speaker) with whom probably the soul was crushed in the care for the body, he needed a friend in the flesh. He therefore mourned for a true friend and a wise counsellor. Mr. Gandhi added that he was certainly proud to have such a friend. The binding between them was the belief they shared in the doctrine preached by Jesus of non-resistance to evil. With Mr. Doke hatred was to be conquered by love, vice by the fullest exercise of virtue.

Mr. Gandhi wished that Mr. Doke's mantle would descend to his children and that he thought that Mrs. Doke had such a noble husband, whose memory was revered by so many men and so many races would sustain and comfort her.