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 of the soul which so unflinching and unswerving, so trustful and cheerful, through these many years of a devoted and consecrated career! And as we thus seek the inspiration of a worthy example, may we be uplifted info a higher altitude of knowledge and of trust where death shall appear as but a transition, a mere partition, an ordained passage in that great progress of life here or elsewhere which is the one unbroken Divine purpose fulfilling itself through ages and generations and concentrating towards one eternal abode where God is the presiding genius and love is the all-proving law! O Lord God, may the tears of sorrow be so touched with the rainbow-hue of hope that, as we sigh, we may see that the sighs are natural to the physical body, while sight is the embodiment of the soul! Thus seeing and thus believing, may we rise to new duties with inspiring ideals and cherished memories! O Lord God, the Ordainer of death, the Companion of souls, may we go forth hopeful of Thy help in the performance of those new duties!

Thou art our Master; therefore we rejoice