. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . Morton, said at his grave: Here lies onewho never feared the face of man. Carlyle says of him: He resembles an old Hebrew prophet, the sameinflexibility, intolerance, rigid adherence to Gods truth; stern rebuke in thename of God, to all who forsake the truth. An old Hebrew prophet, in theguise of an Edinburgh minister of the sixteenth century; but an honest-hearted, brotherly man; brother to the high, brother also to the low, sincerein his sympathy for both. He had his pi
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . Morton, said at his grave: Here lies onewho never feared the face of man. Carlyle says of him: He resembles an old Hebrew prophet, the sameinflexibility, intolerance, rigid adherence to Gods truth; stern rebuke in thename of God, to all who forsake the truth. An old Hebrew prophet, in theguise of an Edinburgh minister of the sixteenth century; but an honest-hearted, brotherly man; brother to the high, brother also to the low, sincerein his sympathy for both. He had his pipe of Bordeaux too, we find, in thatold Edinburgh house of his. A cheery social man, with faces that loved has the power of holding his peace in many things that do not vitallyconcern him, but the thing which does vitally concern him, that thing hewill speak of, and in a tone that the whole world shall be made to to him! His works have not died. The letter of his work dies as ofall mens, but the spirit of it never. Authorities: Dictionary of National Biography; Carlyle; and McCrie, Life of Si. Tiikkksa. iroui / Sn/anos Iio/ioi^i a/i/i ;niwla. No. 24 The Death of Saint Teresa as related by her companion,the lay sister Anna. Born at Avila, a city in OldCastile, Spain, on 28th March 1515. Died at Alvain the same province on 4th Odlober 1582. ST. TERESA was on a journey to her native city to attend theceremony of the taking of the veil by her niece. When on the roadshe became very ill, and her companion, Sister Anna, speaks asfollows: The same night, being the Vigil of St. Matthew, we reached was then so spent and sick, that she was persuaded to go to bed. Yetthe next morning she got up and went to church to hear Mass, where likewiseshe received the blessed Sacrament. After which she passed some days, beingsometimes better and sometimes worse of her distemper, until the Feast ofSt. Michael the Archangel, on which day she took to her bed
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