. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . oic constancy. He realized that the highest task of manhood was to livelike a man, and like a man he died, with awe-struck yet resolute and piouslyexpectant heart, taking leave of a Reality to enter a Reality still higher. Carlyle says of him: Few men on record have had a more merciful,tenderly affectionate nature than old Samuel. He was called the Bear anddid indeed often look and roar like one, being forced to it in his own defence;yet within that shaggy exterior of his
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . oic constancy. He realized that the highest task of manhood was to livelike a man, and like a man he died, with awe-struck yet resolute and piouslyexpectant heart, taking leave of a Reality to enter a Reality still higher. Carlyle says of him: Few men on record have had a more merciful,tenderly affectionate nature than old Samuel. He was called the Bear anddid indeed often look and roar like one, being forced to it in his own defence;yet within that shaggy exterior of his there beat a heart warm as a mothers,soft as a little childs. Nay generally his very roaring was but the anger ofaffection; the rage of a bear if you will, but of a bear bereaved of her his religion; glance at the Church of England or the divine right;and he was upon you. These things were his symbols of all that was goodand precious for men; his very ark of the covenant; whoso laid his hand onthem tore asunder his heart of hearts. Authorities: Boswell; Biiiell; Carlyle; Dictionary of National Biography,. J. Flktcher. From an engraz>in^^ by J I. /. U/tite. No. 58 The Death of Mr. Fletcher of Madeley, MethodistPreacher. Born 1729. Died 1785. VOLUMES have been filled by sectarians of every description withaccounts of the behaviour and triumphant hopes of the dying, allresembling- each other, but the circumstances of Mr. Fletchers deathwere as peculiar as those of his life. He had taken cold, and a considerabledegree of fever had been induced, but no persuasion could prevail on him tostay from church on Sunday, nor even to permit that any part of the serviceshould be performed for him. It was the will of the Lord, he said, that heshould go, and he assured his wife and his friends that God would strengthenhim to go through the duties of the day. Before he had proceeded far in theservice he grew pale, and faltered in his speech, and could scarcely keephimself from f
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