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 this heart has been feeling these several days — even the pain and anguish that, while the world is led or misled into the notion of worth and virtue, there is the ceaseless, the unquenchable, hell-fire, in the heart, of separation from Thee and the aching feeling, the tormenting sense, of the loneliness born of that separation !” (P. 347.)

Thus, honour without exalting the honourable within, and the honourable within humbling itself before the honour without — thus, full of years as of honours,

‘Till old experience do attain ,

To something like prophetic strain — ’

may this, our own ‘ good man of God,^ thrive, by His grace, thr»ugh the round of many a benignant birth-da 3 thus to yield us the growing fruit of his goodness and godliness! And for the time bein^, aj'e, ‘thro’ all the secular to-be,’ may this present store of refined reflections and reverential rhapsodies, with their fresh charm of revision by that fiinishing touch which fouches nothing it adorns not, usher its peaceful way into all